Usually means: Based on incorrect ideas or beliefs.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word wrongheaded:

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  1. wrongheaded: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wrongheaded: Merriam-Webster
  3. wrongheaded: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wrongheaded: Vocabulary.com
  5. wrongheaded: Wordnik
  6. wrongheaded: Wiktionary
  7. wrongheaded: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. wrongheaded: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. wrongheaded: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. wrongheaded: Dictionary.com
  11. wrongheaded: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Wrongheaded: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Wrongheaded: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. wrongheaded: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. wrongheaded: Rhymezone
  16. Wrongheaded: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. wrongheaded: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. wrongheaded: FreeDictionary.org
  19. wrongheaded: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Wrongheaded: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. wrongheaded: Legal dictionary

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  1. wrongheaded: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wrongheaded)

▸ adjective:  Having an obstinately (persistently, stubbornly) perverse/erroneous opinion or judgement.

Similar:
wrong, wrong-headed, perverse, misminded, wrongminded, wrong-minded, contrary, maloriented, ass-backwards, erroneous, more...

Opposite:
right-minded, sensible, rational, logical, reasonable

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Similar:
wrong, wrong-headed, perverse, misminded, wrongminded, wrong-minded, contrary, maloriented, ass-backwards, erroneous, more...

Opposite:
right-minded, sensible, rational, logical, reasonable



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