mistaken 
mis·taken (mi stāk′ən)
adjective
- wrong; having an incorrect understanding, perception, etc.: said of persons
- incorrect; misunderstood; erroneous: said of ideas, etc.
mistaken
modif.
In error
inaccurate, inexact, misinformed, deceived, confounded, confused, misinterpreting the facts, misconceiving the meaning, misunderstanding the situation, misapprehending the situation, misjudging the facts, having the wrong impression, deluded, misinformed, misguided, at fault, off the track, having been too credulous; see also wrong 2.Ill-advised
unadvised, duped, fooled, misled, tricked, unwarranted; see also deceived 1.Taken for another
improperly identified, wrongly identified, unrecognized, confused with, taken for, in a case of mistaken identity, misnamed, miscataloged, misconstrued.
Modifies a noun
- identity: The phrase ' mistaken identity ' was applied in such cases by the media.
- belief: Unlike the big banks we do not share the mistaken belief that the self employed are a greater risk for loans.
- impression: Of the best they have a mistaken impression they consider your possible.
- assumption: Most people make the mistaken assumption that the EU is a free trade area.
- notion: Clearly, this is a mistaken notion of fairness.
- perception: This mistaken perception is largely the result of media coverage.
Modifying Another Word
- profoundly: My own view is that this is a profoundly mistaken analysis.
- sadly: But, many are sadly mistaken if they think that this condition is far off for them.
- seriously: Employers are seriously mistaken if they think UCU would sign up to anything else.
- completely: This article was written to show that this is a completely mistaken idea.
- much: Angel, if Spike wasn't very much mistaken, was singing the exact same song as when Spike had left.
- quite: He converted the country to the quite mistaken belief that there was an insurance scheme.
Used with adjective complement
- get: I prefer not to have to contend with the indignity of getting mistaken for a woman.
- prove: Some of the questions she did ask were answered, but the information given was later to prove mistaken.
- appear: However, this characterisation of Stirner's position appears mistaken.
- seem: To equate the removal from the woman's body and reintroduction of sperm with the removal and reintroduction of ova seems mistaken.
The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.
Mistaken in its assumptions, defective in its evidence and wrong in its conclusions.
He replied that I must needs be mistaken, or that I said the thing which was not. (For they have no word in their language to express lying or falsehood.)
Le bon sens est la chose du monde la mieux partage¤ e: car chacun pense en e" tre si bien pourvu, que ceux me" me qui sont les plus difficiles a' contenter en toute autre chose n'ont point coutume d'en de¤ sirer plus qu'ils ont. En quoi il n'est pas vraisemblable que tous se trompent; mais pluto" t cela te¤ moigne que la puissance de bien juger et distinguer le vrai d'avec le faux, qui est proprement ce qu'on nomme le bon sens ou la raison, est naturellement e¤ gale en tous les hommes. Good sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world; for everyone thinks himself so well supplied with it, that even those who are hardest to satisfy in every other way do not usually desire more of it than they already have. In this matter it is not likely that everybody is mistaken; it rather goes to show that the power of judging well and distinguishing truth from falsehood, which is what we properly mean by good sense or reason, is naturally equal in all men.
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
Inquire often, but judge rarely, and thou wilt not often be mistaken.
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