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noun

an error in activity, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, abandon, insufficient knowledge, etc.

a misunderstanding or misconception.

verb (used with object), mis·took [mi-stook], /mɪˈstʊk/, mis·tak·en [mi-stey-one thousanduhn], /mɪˈsteɪ kən/, mis·tak·ing.

to regard or place wrongly as something or someone else: I mistook him for the mayor.

to empathise, interpret, or evaluate wrongly; misunderstand; misinterpret.

verb (used without object), mis·took [mi-stoog], /mɪˈstʊk/, mis·tak·en [mi-stey-kuhn], /mɪˈsteɪ kən/, mis·tak·ing.

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Idioms about mistake

and no mistake, for certain; surely: He'southward an honorable person, and no mistake.

Origin of mistake

Showtime recorded in 1300–30; Middle English mistaken (verb), from Old Norse mistaka "to take in error." meet origin at mis-¹, accept

synonym study for mistake

1. Mistake, blunder, error, slip refer to deviations from right, accuracy, correctness, or truth. A mistake, grave or trivial, is caused by bad judgment or a disregard of rule or principle: It was a mistake to argue. A blunder is a careless, stupid, or gross mistake in action or oral communication, suggesting awkwardness, heedlessness, or ignorance: Through his blunder the message was lost. An error (often interchanged with mistake ) is an unintentional wandering or divergence from accuracy, or right carry: an error in addition. A slip is usually a minor mistake made through haste or abandon: a sideslip of the tongue.

words often dislocated with mistake

OTHER WORDS FROM mistake

mis·tak·er, substantive mis·tak·ing·ly, adverb un·mis·tak·ing, describing word un·mis·tak·ing·ly, adverb

WORDS THAT MAY BE Confused WITH mistake

misnomer, fault (see confusables note at misnomer)

Words nearby mistake

misstrike, missus, missy, mist, mistakable, mistake, error for, mistaken, mistakenly, mistal, Mistassini

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Words related to mistake

aberration, blunder, defoliation, fault, gaffe, inaccuracy, lapse, miscalculation, misconception, misstep, omission, oversight, snafu, confuse, miscalculate, misconstrue, misinterpret, misjudge, misread, overestimate

How to use error in a judgement

• You've got to have the ability to block out past mistakes, or even the future.

• What's more, not every speaker may be fluent, meaning that a child hearing more than languages might also hear errors.

• She tried following the instructions but made so many mistakes that "information technology fabricated my whole screen merely await red," she said.

• UNC-Miami postponed later on two Tar Heels are shown celebrating Duke win without masks"Every little mistake we made, they only took advantage of it," Wiggins said, referencing Ohio State'southward 21 points off turnovers.

• On Lord's day, she updated her accounts to show that she had started the process of trying to remove what is presumably one of the worst faults of her life.

• This time information technology would be the biggest mistake for the Western press to echo that—admittedly the biggest mistake.

• Scalise has called the talk, which he delivered in a hotel outside New Orleans, "a mistake I regret."

• Scalise offered his contrition that he had fabricated a mistake and apologized for appearing before a group some 12 years ago.

• Make no mistake: The technology exists—has existed for a long while—to stop this from happening.

• I made the fault of promising i group of guys they could ask me annihilation if they answered my questions.

• Instead of giving y'all a chance to say, "He has made a mistake," he forced you to say, "He has shown how to become out of a mistake."

• My mother now tells me that she knew of this mistake, an mistake of the New York newspaper in copying the detail from a Southern journal.

• I must brand no mistake, and blunder into a national type of features, all wrong; if I make your mask, it must do the states credit.

• They never knew how it got at that place, but thinking it was past error, Glavis took it into the house and spread information technology out.

• "Yep, there has been a mistake," she said peevishly, turning in with him to a small room they used equally a breakfast-room.

British Dictionary definitions for mistake

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noun

an error or blunder in action, opinion, or judgment

a misconception or misunderstanding

verb -takes, -taking, -took or -taken

(tr) to misunderstand; misinterpret she mistook his meaning

(tr foll past for) to take (for), interpret (as), or confuse (with) she mistook his straight manner for honesty

(tr) to choose badly or incorrectly he mistook his path

(intr) to brand a mistake in activeness, stance, judgment, etc

Derived forms of mistake

mistaker, substantive

Word Origin for mistake

C13 (significant: to exercise wrong, err): from Old Norse mistaka to take erroneously

Collins English Lexicon - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Idioms and Phrases with mistake

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In addition to the idiom beginning with mistake

• error for

also run into:

• by mistake
• make no fault

The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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