A mistake is an error, a goof, a slip up. When you make a mistake, you've done something incorrectly.
To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.
Noun
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"
Noun
an understanding of something that is not correct; "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"
Noun
part of a statement that is not correct; "the book was full of errors"
Verb
to make a mistake or be incorrect
Verb
identify incorrectly; "Don''t mistake her for her twin sister"
v. t.
To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.
v. t.
To take or choose wrongly.
v. t.
To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand
misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's
meaning.
v. t.
To substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake
one person for another.
v. t.
To have a wrong idea of in respect of character,
qualities, etc.; to misjudge.
v. i.
To err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment;
to commit an unintentional error.
n.
An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a
misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional
error of conduct.
n.
Misconception, error, which when non-negligent may be
ground for rescinding a contract, or for refusing to perform it.
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My father's purposes have been mistook.3.
A man may mistake the love of virtue for the practice of it.4.
Mistake me not so much, To think my poverty is treacherous.
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Servants mistake, and sometimes occasion misunderstanding among friends.
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Infallibility is an absolute security of the understanding from all possibility of mistake.2.
To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.
To take or choose wrongly.
To err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error.
Usage Examples
Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
A guy's biggest style mistake is definitely trying to look too cool. As long as you've got a good pair of jeans, a good pair of boots and a few good shirts, you're fine.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
Another parent's different approach raises the possibility that you've made a mistake with your child. We simply can't tolerate that because we fear that any mistake, no matter how minor, could have devastating consequences. So we proclaim the superiority of our own choices. We've lost sight of the fact that people have preferences.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I'm upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.
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Other Usage ExamplesBut if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
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