mistaken
Multiple Entries:mistaken mistake
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mistaken/mɪˈsteɪkən/
▶adjective wrong in one's opinion or judgement.
■ based on a misunderstanding or faulty judgement.
– derivatives
mistakenly adverb,
mistakenness noun.
mistakenly adverb,
mistakenness noun.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mistake/mɪˈsteɪk/
▶noun something which is not correct; an inaccuracy.
■ an act or judgement that is misguided or wrong.
▶verb (past mistook; past part. mistaken) be wrong about.■ (mistake someone/thing for) wrongly identify someone or something as.
– derivatives
mistakable (also mistakeable) adjective,
mistakably (also mistakeably) adverb.
mistakable (also mistakeable) adjective,
mistakably (also mistakeably) adverb.
– origin ME (as v.): from ON mistaka ‘take in error’, prob. influenced in sense by OFr. mesprendre.
'mistaken' also found in these Oxford entries:
ache
- bark
- base
- case
- deceive
- disabuse
- -en
- err
- fallacy
- feldspar
- folk etymology
- fool's gold
- indri
- jejune
- labour
- lie
- malapropism
- misapprehension
- misconception
- mistake
- non est factum
- out
- undeceive
- unmistakable
- unmistaken
- wrong
