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What does erroneous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word erroneous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Containing an error; inaccurate.
  2. Derived from an error.
  3. Mistaken.
  4. (law) signifies a deviation from the requirements of the law, but does not connote a lack of legal authority, and is thus distinguished from illegal.
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A close inspection suggests antecedent variables that may have set the occasion for his conclusions, erroneous though they evidently were.
This is arguably the most persuasive riposte to the erroneous notion that Western cinema says it all.
Formal logic is applied again, this time to determine whether a premature or erroneous idea prevails.
The costs involved in reviewing surgical pathology slides are outweighed by the potential cost of unnecessary or erroneous treatment.
Yet, as it turns out, many of those foods have bad raps based on outdated and, sometimes, erroneous information.
He felt that the Malthusian theory of population growth was at the basis of the erroneous wages-fund doctrine.

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