Word Meanings - MISTAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To take or choose wrongly. Shak. 2. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. Locke. My father's purposes have been mistook. Shak. 3. To substitute in thought

Additional info about word: MISTAKE

1. To take or choose wrongly. Shak. 2. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. Locke. My father's purposes have been mistook. Shak. 3. To substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake one person for another. A man may mistake the love of virtue for the practice of it. Johnson. 4. To have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge. Mistake me not so much, To think my poverty is treacherous. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MISTAKE)

• Blunder
• Error
• mistake
• misunderstanding
• fault
• oversight
• inaccuracy
• delusion
• slip
• Err
• Deviate
• wander
• blunder
• misjudge
• stumble
• stray
• go astray
• misapprehend
• Fault
• falsity
• deception
• fallacy
• untruth
• hallucination
• Falsify
• Mistake
• misinterpret
• misrepresent
• belie
• betray
• garble
• cook
• Hit
• Strike
• succeed
• chance
• reach
• hazard
• touch

Related words: (words related to MISTAKE)

• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• SUCCEEDANT
  Succeeding one another; following.
• FAULTINESS
  Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.
• SUCCEDANE
  A succedaneum.
• SUCCESS
  1. Act of succeeding; succession. Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned By due success. Spenser. 2. That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.
• STRAY
  1. Any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. Used also figuratively. Seeing him wander about, I took him up for a stray. Dryden. 2. The act of wandering or going astray.
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• BLUNDERHEAD
  A stupid, blundering fellow.
• SUCCESSLESS
  Having no success. Successless all her soft caresses prove. Pope. -- Suc*cess"less*ly, adv. -- Suc*cess"less*ness, n.
• ASTRAY
  Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray. Ye were as sheep going astray. 1 Pet. ii. 25.
• BLUNDERER
  One who is apt to blunder.
• SUCCEEDER
  A successor. Shak. Tennyson.
• WANDEROO
  A large monkey native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo. Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other
• REACH
  1. The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon shot. 2. The power of stretching out
• CHANCEFUL
  Hazardous. Spenser.
• ERRORFUL
  Full of error; wrong. Foxe.
• BELIEVING
  That believes; having belief. -- Be*liev"ing*ly, adv.
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• PICK-FAULT
  One who seeks out faults.
• FOREREACH
  To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• SELF-DELUSION
  The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.
• ARCHCHANCELLOR
  A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
• HIGH-REACHING
  Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring. Shak.
• GUNREACH
  The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.