mistake
Meaning
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- To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
- (obsolete) To misunderstand (someone).
- (obsolete) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
- (obsolete) To take or choose wrongly.
Synonyms
make an error
be wrong
ballup
be in error
make mistake
drop words
not clean
not recognize
to go astray
be ignorant of
commit an error
wrong way
be confused
do wrong
make mistakes
not know
apparent and grievous error
miss seeing
immoral act
gross error
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/mɪˈsteɪk/
Etymology
From Middle English mistaken, from Old Norse mistaka (“to take in error, to miscarry”); equivalent to mis- + take. Cognate with Icelandic mistaka (“to mistake”), Swedish missta (“to mistake”) (before apocope misstaga). The noun, which replaced earlier mistaking, is derived from the verb.
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