mistaken adj

1 wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment; "well-meaning but misguided teachers"; "a mistaken belief"; "mistaken identity" [syn: misguided]

2 arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation" [syn: false]mistake

1 a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" [syn: error, fault]

2 an understanding of something that is not correct; "he wasn't going to admit his mistake"; "make no mistake about his intentions"; "there must be some misunderstanding--I don't have a sister" [syn: misunderstanding, misapprehension]

3 part of a statement that is not correct; "the book was full of errors" [syn: error]

1 identify incorrectly; "Don't mistake her for her twin sister" [syn: misidentify]

2 to make a mistake or be incorrect [syn: err, slip] [also: mistook, mistaken]mistaken See mistake

English

Pronunciation

• /'mɪsteɪkən/

• Rhymes: -eɪkən

Verb

mistaken

1. past participle of mistake

Mistaken is the past participle of mistake and may refer to:

• Mistaken Identity, a claim of the actual innocence of a criminal defendant
• Mistaken Point (Newfoundland and Labrador), a small Canadian headland

Music

• Don't Be Mistaken, a 1983 punk rock album by Agresion
• Planes Mistaken for Stars, an American punk rock group formed in 1997

See also

• Mistaken Identity (disambiguation)
• Mistake, disambiguation
• The Mistake, disambiguation

all wet, all wrong, amiss, catachrestic, distorted, eisegetical, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, faulty, flawed, garbled, in error, inaccurate, incorrect, misapprehended, misconceived, misconstrued, misguided, misinformed, misinterpreted, misread, misunderstood, off, out of order, perverted, twisted, under an error, warped, wrong