WRONGHEADED Synonyms: 117 Similar and Opposite Words

wrongheaded

adjective

as in rebellious

having or showing opinions or ideas that are wrong wrongheaded people I think he is taking a wrongheaded approach to dealing with the problem.

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Recent Examples of wrongheaded Nearly 25 years later, North is just as bad as Ebert wrote, an astoundingly wrongheaded concept executed in the most mealymouthed, limp way possible. —

Will Leitch, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2025 At best, such ideas come across as quaint; at worst, dangerous or plain wrongheaded. —

Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025 Ultimately, the laws are based on a dystopia and wrongheaded assumption that Americans firearms for their self-defense. —

Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025 Or were the Arabs in Palestine done in again and again by inflexible, wrongheaded, venal, and corrupt leadership? —

Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wrongheaded

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The film explores the iconic partnership between Fonteyn, a 42-year-old prima ballerina and Britain’s most famous dancer, and Rudolf Nureyev, the 23-year-old rebellious Soviet defector who became her partner on stage (and, it was rumored, off it as well).

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
When the skyscraper where Rayburn and his family lives is destroyed in an explosion, Creasy attempts to regain his military prowess in his determination to protect Rayburn’s rebellious teen daughter Poe (Billie Boullet), who has been targeted by the terrorists.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026