mistake
Noun
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A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention (synset 100071785)
"he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"hypernym: nonaccomplishment, nonachievement - an act that does not achieve its intended goalhyponym:
- blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain - an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- confusion, mix-up - a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another
- incursion - the mistake of incurring liability or blame
- miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning - a mistake in calculating
- distortion - the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
- miscue, parapraxis, slip, slip-up - a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- offside - (sport) the mistake of occupying an illegal position on the playing field (in football, soccer, ice hockey, field hockey, etc.)
- lapse, oversight - a mistake resulting from inattention
- omission, skip - a mistake resulting from neglect
- bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall - an embarrassing mistake
- balls-up, ballup, cockup, mess-up - something badly botched or muddled
- betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity - a stupid mistake
- renege, revoke - the mistake of not following suit when able to do so
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An understanding of something that is not correct (synset 105904330)
"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"hypernym: misconception - an incorrect conceptionsynonym: misapprehension, misunderstanding
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Part of a statement that is not correct (synset 106782183)
"the book was full of errors"hypernym: misstatement - a statement that contains a mistakehyponym:
- corrigendum - a printer's error; to be corrected
- erratum, literal, literal error, misprint, typo, typographical error - a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
synonym: error
Verb
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Identify incorrectly (synset 200619957)
"Don't mistake her for her twin sister"hypernym: identify - consider to be equal or the samesynonym: misidentify
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To make a mistake or be incorrect (synset 200619438)
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