Definitions for mistaken

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mistaken mis·tak·en

Spelling: [mi-stey-kuh n]

IPA: /mɪˈsteɪ kən/

Mistaken is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 470 anagrams from letters in mistaken (aeikmnst).

Definitions for mistaken

noun

1. an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
2. a misunderstanding or misconception.

Idioms

1. and no mistake, for certain; surely:

adjective

1. wrongly conceived, held, or done:
2. erroneous; incorrect; wrong:
3. having made a mistake; being in error.

verb (used with object)

1. to regard or identify wrongly as something or someone else:
2. to understand, interpret, or evaluate wrongly; misunderstand; misinterpret.

verb (used without object)

1. to be in error.

Origin of mistaken

1590-1600; past participle of mistake; see -en³

Examples for mistaken

But if you think I was consistently mercenary you are mistaken.

Nor was she mistaken: many a time had her father said so to himself.

Democrats would be mistaken to underestimate Mike Huckabee, perhaps the strongest Republican presidential contender.

If you think they were embarrassed to the degree that they could not eat, you are mistaken.

When the child turned around and wondered why he had been hit, it turned out that Bodenheimer had mistaken him for another child.

I'm less likely to be mistaken than you, my dear, though he was your father.

I may have been mistaken with regard to the cause of my persecution by the Wilsons, but I think not.

Mapei is soft-spoken, but that should not be mistaken for modesty.

“If you looked into his background for 30 seconds,” says Bogucki, you would have seen this was a case of mistaken identity.

Jackson volunteered this information to detectives, just before the trial, in the mistaken belief that it would help Wise.