Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Wrong or incorrect in opinion, understanding, or perception.
- adjective Based on error; wrong.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wrongly taken; misunderstood; misconceived.
- Erroneously entertained, apprehended, received, or done; marked or characterized by mistake; erroneous; incorrect; blundering: said of acts, statements, notions, etc.
- Having made a mistake; laboring under a mistake; in error: said of persons.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception
- Erroneous; wrong.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Past participle of
mistake - adjective
Erroneous . - adjective Having an
incorrect belief .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective arising from error
- adjective wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment
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Examples
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_ Of course, if he had _seen_, he was mistaken, he would have ceased to _be mistaken_.
Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 Catherine Mumford Booth 1859
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_ Of course, if he had _seen_, he was mistaken, he would have ceased to _be mistaken_.
Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 Catherine Mumford Booth 1859
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_ Of course, if he had _seen_, he was mistaken, he would have ceased to _be mistaken_.
Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 Catherine Mumford Booth 1859
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As it is they are continually reproaching me with what they call my mistaken clemency, and there would be no restraining them did they know of this.
Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden 1867
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National Army soldiers were killed by what he described as a mistaken NATO air strike in
SFGate: Top News Stories Borzou Daragahi 2010
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Also on Thursday, the spokesman for the Defense Ministry announced that four Afghan soldiers were killed by what he described as a mistaken
latimes.com - News 2010
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He blamed the failure on what he called mistaken concern over the Church's reputation.
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Also on Thursday, the spokesman for the Defense Ministry announced that four Afghan soldiers were killed by what he described as a mistaken
latimes.com - News 2010
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Also on Thursday, the spokesman for the Defense Ministry announced that four Afghan soldiers were killed by what he described as a mistaken
latimes.com - News 2010
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I suggest you humble yourself and just acknowledge you were completely mistaken from the get go …
Think Progress » Kyl: GOP Willing To Filibuster Obama’s Yet-To-Be-Named SCOTUS Nominee 2010
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