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got wrong

got wrong is the simple past and past participle of get wrong.

Meaning of get wrong

Verb

get wrong (third-person singular simple present gets wrong, present participle getting wrong, simple past got wrong, past participle (UK) got wrong or (US) gotten wrong)

  1. (transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, wrong.
    • You've got it all wrong: I'm innocent of this crime!
  2. (Norfolk, Northumbria, often) To be told off or reprimanded; to get into trouble.
    • […] she couldn't tell her mother and father, because she would have got wrong off her mother and father […]1976, John Henry Taylor, The Half-Way Generation: A Study of Asian Youths in Newcastle upon Tyne, NFER Publishing Company, page 138

Questions about got wrong

What is got wrong the simple past and past participle of?
Got wrong is the simple past and past participle of get wrong.

Words near got wrong in the dictionary

  1. got with child
  2. got with it
  3. got with the program
  4. got with the times
  5. got work done
  6. got wrong
  7. got-up
  8. Gotama
  9. Gotarzes
  10. gotaway
  11. gotaways

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Adapted from Wiktionary: got wrong (page history and authors); get 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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