mistake in English dictionary

  • mistake

    Meanings and definitions of "mistake"

    • An error; a blunder.
    • (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
    • (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.
    • (transitive) To make an error, to do something in wrong way.
    • noun
      An error; a blunder.
    • noun
      (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
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
    • verb
      (obsolete, rare)
      To take or choose wrongly.
    • A mistake, an oversight, a slight; usually apologetic, referring to one's own failures.
    • To make an error
    • An error (1)
    • To take one thing for another
    • To fail to understand or interpret the meaning of words or behaviour correctly.
    • noun
      an understanding of something that is not correct; "he wasn't going to admit his mistake"; "make no mistake about his intentions"; "there must be some misunderstanding--I don't have a sister"
    • noun
      a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"
    • noun
      part of a statement that is not correct; "the book was full of errors"
    • verb
      identify incorrectly; "Don't mistake her for her twin sister"
    • verb
      to make a mistake or be incorrect

    Synonyms of "mistake" in English dictionary

    misapprehension, identify, misidentify are the top synonyms of "mistake" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of mistake

    • mistake ( plural  mistakes)
    • mistake ( third-person singular simple present mistakes, present participle mistaking, simple past mistook, past participle mistaken)
    • lm  liczba mnoga ~s mistake, mistook, mistaken; he ~s; be ~ing
    • mistake (plural mistakes)
    • mistake (third-person singular simple present mistakes, present participle mistaking, simple past mistook, past participle mistaken)
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