Wrongheaded

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wrongheaded \Wrong"head`ed\, a.
     Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse
     understanding; perverse. -- {Wrong"head`ed*ly}, adv. --
     {Wrong"head`ed*ness}, n. --Macaulay.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wrongheaded
       adj : obstinately perverse in judgment or opinion; "a wrongheaded
             policy"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "wrongheaded":
     Boeotian, asinine, balky, beef-brained, beef-witted, blockish,
     bovine, bullheaded, cantankerous, chumpish, cloddish, contrary,
     cowish, crass, cross-grained, dense, difficult, doltish, dullard,
     dumb, duncical, duncish, fat, froward, gross, headstrong,
     ineducable, irascible, klutzy, lumpish, mulish, oafish, opaque,
     ornery, perverse, pigheaded, restive, self-willed, sottish,
     stiff-necked, stubborn, stuffy, stupid, sulky, sullen, thick,
     unteachable, wayward