not right
Off the mark
Not right covers a range of wrongness, from factual error to moral failure to something being off.
A wrong answer is not right.
Mistreating someone is not right.
When something feels not right, there's an intuition that something is amiss even without knowing what: Something about this place isn't right.
The phrase softens criticism—saying someone is "not right" sounds gentler than calling them wrong.
- wrongContrary to fact
- incorrectNot accurate or true
- off baseInaccurate or mistaken
- offNot functioning
- amissWrong or faulty
awry · out of whack · crooked · skewed · flawed · mistaken · faulty · improper · unjust · unfair · twisted · bent · askew · wonky · broken · false · erroneous · sinister
not rightright
Morally proper or entitled
proper · ethical · moral · just · appropriate
not rightright
Morally proper or entitled
working · functioning · in order · in working order · operational
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