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Mistake

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An error or fault resulting from defective judgment, deficient knowledge, or carelessness.

n. A misconception or misunderstanding.

v. To understand wrongly; misinterpret: mistook my politeness for friendliness.

v. To recognize or identify incorrectly: He mistook her for her sister.

verb-intransitive. To make a mistake; err.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An error; a blunder.

n. A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard to hit location, but instead ends up in an easy to hit place

v. To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.

v. To make an error, to do something in a wrong way.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To take or choose wrongly.

v. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive

v. To substitute in thought or perception.

v. To have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge.

verb-intransitive. To err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error.

n. An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct.

n. Misconception, error, which when non-negligent may be ground for rescinding a contract, or for refusing to perform it.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

l. To take wrongly; appropriate erroneously or through misapprehension.

To take or choose erroneously; choose amiss, as between alternatives; regard (something) as other than it is: as, to mistake one's road or bearings; to mistake a fixed star for a planet.

To take in a wrong sense; conceive or understand erroneously; misunderstand; misjudge: as, to mistake one's meaning or intentions.

To make a mistake; be in error; be wrong; misapprehend.

To take a wrong part; transgress.

To err in advice, opinion, or judgment; be under a misapprehension or misconception; be unintentionally in error.

n. An error in action, opinion, or judgment; especially, misconception, misapprehension, or misunderstanding; an erroneous view, act, or omission, arising from ignorance, confusion, misplaced confidence, etc.; a slip; a fault; an error; a blunder.

n. In law, an erroneous mental conception that influences the will and leads to action. Pomeroy.

n. Synonyms Error, Bull, etc. See blunder.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. an understanding of something that is not correct

n. a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

n. part of a statement that is not correct

v. identify incorrectly

v. to make a mistake or be incorrect

Word Usage

"With regard to the _designed mistake_, my defence is that no mistake was made by me either _designed_ or _not designed_."

Verb Form

mistaken mistakes mistaking mistook

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

misconception

Cross Reference

to mistake away to be mistaken and no mistake

Variant

mistaken mistook

Hyponym

fall for trip up stumble slip up misjudge misremember

Form

mistakeless

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

misjudge error bull blunder misconception misunderstanding err

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Ache Blake Drake Haik Jake Lake Snake ache ake awake

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

error blunder failure weakness accident difficulty disaster misunderstanding confusion defect