mistake

noun

An error.

(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 or person for another.

(intransitive, obsolete) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.

(transitive, obsolete) To misunderstand (someone).

(obsolete, rare) To take or choose wrongly.

Words related to mistake

mistakern blunderinglyadv errv erroneousnessn misreckon lapsus mistakenadj inadvertencen botchilyadv dittographyadj misprisionn misinterpretationn wrongadj mistakenlyadv misspellingn omissionn

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