wide of the mark

1. 1.

   not on target

   “the kick was wide”

   “the arrow was wide of the mark”

   “a claim that was wide of the truth”

   Synonymswide

   Similarinaccurate

Questions about wide of the mark

What does wide of the mark mean?

wide of the mark means "not on target".

What is another word for wide of the mark?

Close synonyms include wide. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wide of the mark a common word?

wide of the mark is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.