dead-wrong

A form of dead wrong — Utterly wrong.

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Meanings

adjectivedead-wrong (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparablerareAlternative form of dead wrong.

    Be careful how you deny a dead-wrong story that has yet to be published.

    1986, Campaigns & Elections - Volume 7, page 20
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    Committing herself to the dead-wrong type of man, more than once, had led to her current circumstances, ...

    2012, Dean Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven, →ISBN

    You're jumping to conclusions, Gregory. Why don't you simply ask me instead of making dead-wrong conclusions?

    2015, Gloria H. Giroux, Voices of Angels: A Novel, →ISBN
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APA

dead-wrong. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dead-wrong

MLA

“dead-wrong.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dead-wrong. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dead-wrong,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dead-wrong.

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