Usually means: Not accurate; missing the target.
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  1. wide of the mark: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wide of the mark: Merriam-Webster
  3. wide of the mark: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wide of the mark: Vocabulary.com
  5. wide of the mark: Wiktionary
  6. wide of the mark: Dictionary.com
  7. wide of the mark: Rhymezone
  8. wide of the mark: FreeDictionary.org
  9. wide of the mark: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. wide of the mark: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wide of the mark: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wide of the mark: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wide of the mark: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wide of the mark: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (wide of the mark)

adjective:  Of a projectile: missing the target.
adjective:  (idiomatic) (Very) inaccurate.

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