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Definition of Mistaken
1. Adjective. Wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment. "Mistaken identity"
2. Adjective. Arising from error. "A mistaken view of the situation"
Definition of Mistaken
1. p. a. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken.
Definition of Mistaken
1. Verb. (past participle of mistake) ¹
2. Adjective. erroneous. ¹
3. Adjective. (with a copula verb) To have an incorrect belief. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mistaken
1. mistake [v] - See also: mistake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mistaken
Literary usage of Mistaken
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1854)
"BROWN was somewhat surprised that the author had not alluded to the affections
which were commonly mistaken for prolapsus of the uterus, ..."
2. She Stoops to Conquer, Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy by Oliver Goldsmith, Joseph Malaby Dent (1900)
"... so boy, take her ; and as you have been mistaken in the mistress, my wish is,
that 210 you may never be mistaken in the wife. Epilogue. BY DR GOLDSMITH. ..."
3. Bulletin by Mysore Geologists' Association (1918)
"Minerals For Which Tungsten Ores are Frequently mistaken Among minerals which
have been frequently mistaken for the ..."
4. Homerica, Emendations and Elucidations of the Odyssey by Thomas Leyden Agar (1908)
"19) of the Old Harbour of Corfu, showing a small island, which certainly strongly
suggests a half-submerged vessel and might easily be mistaken for one if ..."
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