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gone wrong

gone wrong is the past participle of go wrong.

Meaning of go wrong

Verb

go wrong (third-person singular simple present goes wrong, present participle going wrong, simple past went wrong, past participle gone wrong)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To worsen; to fail or go amiss; to have a bad outcome.
    • Everything seems to be going very badly wrong today.
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To malfunction.
    • The vending machine went wrong and dispensed five cans of drink at once.
  3. (idiomatic, intransitive) To become wicked or depraved.
    • Mr. Blue Sky / Please tell us why / You had to hide away for so long (so long) / Where did we go wrong?1977, Electric Light Orchestra, “Mr. Blue Sky”, in Out of the Blue

Adjective

gone wrong (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of gone bad (of a criminal act, having become unexpectedly more violent than typical).
    • a drug deal gone wrong, a robbery gone wrong
    Synonyms:
    gone bad

Synonyms of gone wrong

Questions about gone wrong

What does gone wrong mean?
Gone wrong means synonym of gone bad (of a criminal act, having become unexpectedly more violent than typical).
What is gone wrong the past participle of?
Gone wrong is the past participle of go wrong.
What part of speech is gone wrong?
Gone wrong is an adjective.

Words near gone wrong in the dictionary

  1. gone with the flow of traffic
  2. gone with the turf
  3. gone with the wind
  4. gone without
  5. gone without saying
  6. gone wrong
  7. gone-zo
  8. goneburger
  9. gonef
  10. gonefs
  11. goneness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gone wrong (page history and authors); go wrong (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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