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Definition of Mistake

Mistake To make or form amiss; to spoil in making. To take or choose wrongly. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. To substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake one person for another. To have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge. To err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error. An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct. Misconception, error, which when non-negligent may be ground for rescinding a contract, or for refusing to perform it. Related Definitions: Amiss, An, Another, Apprehending, As, Be, Character, Choose, Commit, Conduct, Contract, Err, Error, Fault, For, Form, Ground, Have, Idea, In, It, Judgment, Knowledge, Make, Making, May, Meaning, Misapprehend, Misconceive, Misconception, Misjudge, Mistake, Misunderstand, Misunderstanding, Of, One, Opinion, Or, Perception, Perform, Person, Qualities, Refusing, Remark, Rescinding, Respect, Sense, Spoil, Substitute, Take, Thought, To, When, Which, Wrong, Wrongly

Mistake Quotations A great many people mistake opinions for thought. Herbert V. Prochnow A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. Albert Einstein Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Adams Anyone who relies exclusively on television for his or her knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake. Steve Powers

Mistake Translations mistake in Afrikaans is fout mistake in Danish is fejl mistake in Dutch is vergissing, fout, dwaling, abuis mistake in Finnish is virhe mistake in French is trompons, abus, erreur, trompez, trompent mistake in Italian is errore, vizio, granchiolino mistake in Latin is error, erratum, mendum menda mistake in Norwegian is feil, mistak mistake in Portuguese is erro, defeito mistake in Swedish is misstag, misstag

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