mistake
mis·take (mi stāk′)
transitive verb -·took′, -·tak′en or Obsolete-·took′, -·tak′·ing
- to understand or perceive wrongly; interpret or judge incorrectly mistake someone's motives
- to take (someone or something) to be another; recognize or identify incorrectly to mistake one twin for the other
Etymology: ME mistaken < ON mistaka, to take wrongly: see mis- & take
intransitive verb
to make a mistake
noun
- a fault in understanding, perception, interpretation, etc.
- an idea, answer, act, etc. that is wrong; error
and no mistake
Informal certainly
mistake
n.
A blunder
error, false step, blunder, slip; see error 1.A misunderstanding
misapprehension, confusion, misconception, misconstruction, delusion, illusion, overestimation, underestimation, impression, aberration, muddle, bemuddling, confounding, disregarding, misinterpretation, misapplication, misdoubt, misstatement, perversion, perplexity, bewilderment, misjudgment; see also exaggeration 1, misunderstanding 1.Antonyms
knowledge*, certainty, interpretation. See syn. study at error.error.
mistake
v.
Antonyms
n
mistake of fact
mistake of law
mutual mistake
unilateral mistake
Converse of object
- make: Make no mistake, the Romans were very good at putting people to death.
- correct: In some cases they correct mistakes in the older versions.
- repeat: A new round should not repeat the mistakes of the past.
- spell: Make sure there are no spelling mistakes or grammatical errors.
- avoid: The video will help you to avoid the mistakes of others.
- rectify: Thankfully there is still time to rectify these mistakes.
Adjective modifier
- costly: All in all an extremely useful session that has enabled me to avoid making costly mistakes!
- fatal: Playing the odds was a fatal mistake: the coin came down heads.
- terrible: During my first few hours in this mental health placement, I started to think I had made a terrible mistake by going there.
- silly: Silly mistakes were made by Newark MP Mrs Fiona Jones in her election return, the Crown Court was told on Monday.
- stupid: Which was a stupid mistake which there is no going back from.
- common: A common mistake is to type ` = ' instead of ` == ' .
Preposition: on
- lap: He seized the opportunity to move into fifth place when James Haydon made a mistake on lap three.
Noun used with modifier
- spelling: Are there any spelling mistakes or other textual errors?
- grammar: Grammar conventions The students, in groups, watch the recorded conversation and take notes on possible grammar mistakes in it and make corrections.
- punctuation: In all work importance is attached to clear, well structured work with a minimum of spelling, grammatical or punctuation mistakes.
- category: To conflate the two is to commit a category mistake ( Ryle, 1949 ).
Preposition: of
- past: A new round should not repeat the mistakes of the past.
Preposition: with
- conversion: Whitehead made no mistake with the simple conversion that cut the deficit by seven points ( 17-10 ).
Preposition: for
- seizure: For example, some people with learning disabilities may behave unusually or have movement disorders that could be mistaken for epileptic seizures.
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
Anything you make a mistake about, I will get you out of, and anything you do well I will take the credit for.
Cambodiawasnot a mistake; it was a crime.The world is diminished by the experience.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and18,000 people boo?
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Whenever I think, I make a mistake.
In unexperienc'd Infancy Many a sweet mistake doth lie.
It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has all the evidence. It biases the judgement.
Murder is always a mistake One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. 797
I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
There are so many kinds of awful menö One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead.
There is no mistake; there has been no mistake, and there shall be no mistake.
I mean, you lieöunder a mistake.
Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice-President of the United States. Should have stuckas Speaker of the House Gave up the second most important job in Government foreight long years as Roosevelt's spare tire.
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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