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wrongful is an adjective meaning "having no legally established claim". It carries 3 recorded senses.
having no legally established claim
“the wrongful heir to the throne”
unlawfully violating the rights of others
“wrongful death”
“a wrongful diversion of trust income”
not just or fair
“a wrongful act”
“a wrongful charge”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wrongful come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.