Wide Of The Mark

Definition: Wide Of The Mark

Wide Of The Mark

Adjective

1. Not on target; "the kick was wide"; "the arrow was wide of the mark"; "a claim that was wide of the truth".

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Synonym: Wide Of The Mark

Deviation

Adverb: astray from, round about, wide of the mark; to the right about; all manner of ways; circuitously.

Distance

Adverb: far off, far away; afar, afar off; off; away; a long way off, a great way off, a good way off; wide away, aloof; wide of, clear of; out of the way, out of reach; abroad, yonder, farther, further, beyond; outre mer, over the border, far and wide, "over the hills and far away "; from pole to pole; (over great space); to the uttermost parts, to the ends of the earth; out of hearing, nobody knows where, a perte de vue, out of the sphere of, wide of the mark; a far cry to.

Error

In error, under an error; Noun: mistaken; Verb: tripping; Verb: out, out in one's reckoning; aberrant; beside the mark, wide of the mark, wide of the truth, way off, far off; astray; (at fault); on a false scent, on the wrong scent; in the wrong box, outside the ballpark; at cross purposes, all in the wrong; all out.

Failure

Wide of the mark; (error); out of one's reckoning; (inexpectation); left in the lurch; thrown away; (wasted); unattained; uncompleted.

Crosswords: Wide Of The Mark

Expression using "wide of the mark": be wide of the mark. Additional references.

Chinese 

不邊際 (irrelevant, neither here nor there, not to the point). (various references)

Finnish

iskeä kirveensä kiveen (be wide of the mark). (various references)

Hungarian

van a valóságtól (to be wide of the mark), távol van az igazságtól (to be wide of the mark), távol jár a valóságtól (to be wide of the mark), távol (afar, afield, aloof, asunder, away, away from, distant, far, off, to be wide of the mark, to keep back, to keep clear of sg, to keep off, wide), melléfog (blunder, to be all abroad, to be beside the mark, to be wide of the mark, to blunder, to bring one's pigs to a pretty market, to bring one's pigs to the wrong market, to miss the cushion, to miss the mark, to pull a boner, wide off the mark), közel sem jár az (to be wide of the mark), közel sem jár a valósághoz (to be wide of the mark), igazsághoz (to be wide of the mark). (various references)

Pig Latin

ideway ofay ethay arkmay

Romanian

departe de ţintã (wide). (various references)

Spanish

errado (aberrant, amiss, erroneous, lost, mistaken, unwise, wrong). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-5 letters: damewort, defoamer, diameter, diemaker, fathered, fathomed, foredate, forehead, foretime, headwork, hematoid, homeward, keratoid, marketed, mediator, moderate, mothered, teamwork, tidemark, timework, tweakier, wakerife, withered, workmate, wreathed.