English-Spanish translations for erroneous

• errado
• erróneo
  Los Estados miembros podían haber evitado una gran proporción de estos pagos erróneos. A large proportion of these erroneous payments could have been prevented by the Member States.
• falso
• inexacto

Definition of erroneous

• Containing an error; inaccurate
• Derived from an error
• Mistaken
• Wandering; erratic

Examples

• His answer to the sum was erroneous.
• His conclusion was erroneous, since it was based on a false assumption.
• Her choice at the line-up proved to be erroneous, as she had only seen the mugger for an instant.
• If, while having the power to act, one commits error in the exercise of that power, he acts erroneously.

Related words

• erroneously
• erroneousness
• erroneus