mistaken
[mi-stey-kuhn]
- wrongly conceived, held, or done: a mistaken antagonism.
- erroneous; incorrect; wrong: a mistaken answer.
- having made a mistake; being in error.
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Origin of mistaken
Synonyms
See more synonyms for on Thesaurus.com1. inaccurate, misconceived.
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Examples from the Web for mistakenly
Contemporary Examples
Will had mistakenly connected the pathway of infection in a hospital room with someone coughing or sneezing circulating in public.
Most of the meddlers in our lives do it to gratify their own egos or because they mistakenly believe they are helping.
This kind of prejudice harms innocent people, whether Muslim or mistakenly thought to be Muslim.
For more than 50 years, Army PFC Lawrence S. Gordon was mistakenly interred as a German soldier in a cemetery in France.
Correction: In an earlier version of this story, Ginni Thomas was mistakenly referred to as a registered lobbyist.
Clarence Thomas’s Wife Asks If Obama Administration Provided Material Support to TerroristsBen Jacobs
March 6, 2014
Historical Examples
Others have thought, but mistakenly, that it was Collioure in Roussillon.
The Phantom WorldAugustin Calmet
He knew also that she would tell him that, just as mistakenly, about the hero of every book he wrote.
CynthiaLeonard Merrick
Catamite, mistakenly read as khz on f. 112b (Mmoires ii, 82).
The Bbur-nma in EnglishBabur, Emperor of Hindustan
We sometimes, mistakenly, say that the English are not good losers.
The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred AffectionsA. Edward Newton
We should not forget how confidently, and how mistakenly, his failure was predicted.
Why We PunctuateWilliam Livingston Klein
mistaken
- (usually predicative) wrong in opinion, judgment, etcshe is mistaken
- arising from error in judgment, opinion, etca mistaken viewpoint
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Word Origin and History for mistakenly
mistaken
adj.
c.1600, "under misapprehension," past participle adjective from mistake (v.). Related: Mistakenly. Mistaken identity attested from 1865.
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