mistake

1. 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"
   is a type of: nonaccomplishment, nonachievement - an act that does not achieve its intended goal
   subtypes:

   • 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
   same as: error, fault
2. 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"
   is a type of: misconception - an incorrect conception
   same as: misapprehension, misunderstanding
3. Part of a statement that is not correct (synset 106782183)
   "the book was full of errors"
   is a type of: misstatement - a statement that contains a mistake
   subtypes:

   • 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
   same as: error

1. Identify incorrectly (synset 200619957)
   "Don't mistake her for her twin sister"
   is a type of: identify - consider to be equal or the same
   subtypes: confound, confuse - mistake one thing for another
   same as: misidentify
2. To make a mistake or be incorrect (synset 200619438)
   subtypes:

   • misremember - remember incorrectly
   • slip up, stumble, trip up - make an error
   • misjudge - judge incorrectly
   • fall for - be deceived, duped, or entrapped by
   same as: err, slip

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