Close
Close adjective - Meeting the highest standard of accuracy.
Usage example: a close analysis of the box-office performance of action movies
Wrong
Wrong adjective - Falling short of a standard.
How words are described
| old | old close | old wrong |
| good | good close | good wrong |
| nice | nice close | nice wrong |
| best | best close | best wrong |
| Other adjectives: normal, perfect, many, actual, real, big, great, wrong, little, quite, strange, placed. | ||
Common collocations
| thanks | close thanks | wrong thanks |
Both words in one sentence
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Cue the Flying Pigs: A character makes a bet on a close-to-impossible outcome and is proven wrong.
Source: Instantly Proven Wrong - Cheetara wants to be close to everyone she cares about, but this ends up sending the wrong message to Lion-O, and he misinterprets it as Cheetara having romantic affection.
Source: Analysis / ThunderCats (2011) - After realizing she's arrived at the wrong point in the future, she shoves that time's version of Evan into the time portal and decides it's close enough.
Source: Close Enough Timeline
Cite this Source
Wrong and Close. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/close/wrong
Close & Wrong. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/close/wrong>.
Wrong or Close. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/close/wrong.
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