wrongheaded

or wrong-head·ed

[ rawng-hed-id, rong- ]

adjective

1. wrong in judgment or opinion; misguided and stubborn; perverse.

Other Words From

• wrongheaded·ly adverb
• wrongheaded·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of wrongheaded¹

First recorded in 1725–35; wrong + headed

Example Sentences

The idea that Snyder’s degrading management style could be safely contained to one team was always wrongheaded.

From Washington Post

What I do know is that the unabashed, unironic adoration for such a sincere yet wrongheaded musical is hard to kick at and strangely tricky to confront.

From Vox

The whole situation is weird and wrongheaded and misses several dozen points.

From Vox

John Kael Weston remembers a man whose death he blames on our wrongheaded policies.

From The Daily Beast

But to see New York cave to the voices of fear, rather than of reason, is unprecedented, shameful, and wrongheaded.

From The Daily Beast

He even probably considers him a threat to the country in a certain kind of way—because his policies are disastrously wrongheaded.

From The Daily Beast

But it is wrongheaded to look at Sayles as just a filmmaker writing a book.

From The Daily Beast

This seems to me just as wrongheaded as the idea that Bush v. Gore was a “lawless” decision.

From The Daily Beast

In fact, it would seem to be allowed within philosophical circles that Mill's works are often wrongheaded and unphilosophical.

From Project Gutenberg

Only somehow it was a difficult point to make clear, if a person was so wrongheaded he couldn't see it for himself.

From Project Gutenberg

But it would be a no less capital blunder to copy what is cheap or trivial or vicious, or even what is merely wrongheaded.

From Project Gutenberg

At last he called them "wrongheaded asses," flung himself into his boat, and made down the river to Jamestown.

From Project Gutenberg

He had always thought his good cousin a singular man, but he had never thought him a wrongheaded fool till this moment.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• adverse
• antithetical
• conflicting
• contradictory
• discordant
• hostile
• inconsistent
• inimical
• negative
• opposed
• paradoxical