Mistake Definition

mĭ-stāk
mistaken, mistakes, mistaking, mistook
noun
mistakes
A fault in understanding, perception, interpretation, etc.
Webster's New World
An idea, answer, act, etc. that is wrong; error.
Webster's New World
A misconception or misunderstanding.
American Heritage
In contract law, a factual misunderstanding that may lead to a failure of a meeting of the minds.
Webster's New World Law

An error; a blunder.

Wiktionary
verb
mistaken, mistakes, mistaking, mistook
To understand or perceive wrongly; interpret or judge incorrectly.
Mistake someone's motives.
Webster's New World
To make a mistake.
Webster's New World
To take (someone or something) to be another; recognize or identify incorrectly.
To mistake one twin for the other.
Webster's New World

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

Wiktionary
Antonyms:
idiom
and no mistake
  • certainly
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Mistake

Noun

Singular:
mistake
Plural:
mistakes

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Mistake

Origin of Mistake

  • From Middle English mistaken to misunderstand from Old Norse mistaka to take in error mis- wrongly mei-1 in Indo-European roots taka to take

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English, from Old Norse mistaka (“to take in error, to miscarry")

    From Wiktionary

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