Someone who's mistaken is confused or wrong about something. If you think your guidance counselor is mistaken about what you should do with your life, you will probably ignore his advice.
Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception;
Adjective S.
arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation"
Adjective S.
wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment; "well-meaning but misguided teachers"; "a mistaken belief"; "mistaken identity"
p. p.
of Mistake
p.a.
Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion
or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken.
p.a.
Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
Mistaken
Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception;
Usage Examples
My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.
I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.
Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.
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Other Usage ExamplesNo matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.
Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
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