Mistaken

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mistake \Mis*take"\ (m[i^]s*t[=a]k"), v. t. [imp. & obs. p. p.
     {Mistook} (m[i^]s*t[oo^]k"); p. p. {Mistaken}
     (m[i^]s*t[=a]k"'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Mistaking}.] [Pref. mis-
     + take: cf. Icel. mistaka.]
     1. To take or choose wrongly. [Obs. or R.] --Shak.
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     2. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend,
        or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's
        meaning. --Locke.
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              My father's purposes have been mistook. --Shak.
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     3. To substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake one
        person for another.
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              A man may mistake the love of virtue for the
              practice of it.                       --Johnson.
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     4. To have a wrong idea of in respect of character,
        qualities, etc.; to misjudge.
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              Mistake me not so much,
              To think my poverty is treacherous.   --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mistaken \Mis*tak"en\, p.a.
     1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or
        a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken.
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     2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mistaken
       adj 1: wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment; "well-meaning but
              misguided teachers"; "a mistaken belief"; "mistaken
              identity" [syn: {misguided}]
       2: arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view
          of the situation" [syn: {false}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mistake
       n 1: 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" [syn: {error}, {fault}]
       2: 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" [syn: {misunderstanding}, {misapprehension}]
       3: part of a statement that is not correct; "the book was full
          of errors" [syn: {error}]
       v 1: identify incorrectly; "Don't mistake her for her twin
            sister" [syn: {misidentify}]
       2: to make a mistake or be incorrect [syn: {err}, {slip}]
       [also: {mistook}, {mistaken}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mistaken
       See {mistake}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "mistaken":
     all wet, all wrong, amiss, catachrestic, distorted, eisegetical,
     erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, faulty, flawed, garbled,
     in error, inaccurate, incorrect, misapprehended, misconceived,
     misconstrued, misguided, misinformed, misinterpreted, misread,
     misunderstood, off, out of order, perverted, twisted,
     under an error, warped, wrong