Mistake

Quick meaning: Mistake is a verb meaning (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.

Meaning

(transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, obsolete) To misunderstand (someone).
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
3. An error.
4. (baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.
5. (obsolete, rare) To take or choose wrongly.

Example Sentences

Don't mistake my kindness for weakness.

My father’s purposes have been mistook;

Sorry, I mistook you for my brother. You look very similar.

Miſtake me not, my Lord, ’tis not my meaning / To raze one Title of your Honour out.

Word Forms

• mistakes
• mistaking
• mistook
• mistaken

Synonyms for mistake

Depending on context, synonyms include aberration, bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include misapprehension, misunderstanding, misidentify, error, fault, err.

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