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mistakable

American  
[mi-stey-kuh-buhl] / mɪˈsteɪ kə bəl /

adjective

  1. capable of being or liable to be mistaken mistaken or misunderstood.


mistakable British  
/ mɪˈsteɪkəbəl /

adjective

  1. liable to be mistaken

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Other Word Forms

  • mistakableness noun
  • mistakably adverb

Etymology

Origin of mistakable

First recorded in 1640–50; mistake + -able

Example Sentences

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Some of the word choice was the same as in the Times, but these reporters firmly cast the action as wildly inappropriate revenge, rather than anything mistakable as a normal reaction:

From Salon

No longer mistakable as an everyday internet partisan, he posted repeatedly about “unconquered Seminoles,” a reference to the tribe that he appears to have adopted.

From New York Times

Late last week, eight floors above a Five Guys in a common space of a completely mistakable building, the man who created the most famous game console spoke to a crowd of maybe 100 people.

From The Verge

I saw all around this forest hundreds of evenly scattered, identically sized ponds with trees sparsely distributed in a uniform way between them, the whole arrangement giving the un­mistakable impression of following a design.

From Literature

Drake, meantime, was mistakably following in the dark and stormy night a phantom enemy, in the shape of five Easterling vessels.

From Project Gutenberg