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MISTAKEN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Arising from error
Example:
a mistaken view of the situation
Synonyms:
false; mistaken
Classified under:
Similar:
incorrect; wrong (not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment
Example:
mistaken identity
Synonyms:
misguided; mistaken
Classified under:
Similar:
wrong (contrary to conscience or morality or law)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past participle of the verb mistake
Context examples:
The lion continued: “You are mistaken, they are twelve girls.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
But I'll go as far with you as I dare go, and a step beyond, for I'll have my wig sorted by the captain or I'm mistaken!
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
At a distance he has been mistaken for me.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was indeed my misfortune to find them at that time not very perfect in their lessons, and the professor himself happened to be generally mistaken.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Besides, your supposition that I would bring the letters here in a notebook is entirely mistaken.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I am much mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was mistaken when I said that I was in the good graces of all.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
This is Clapham Junction, if I am not mistaken, and we shall be in Victoria in less than ten minutes.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"I thought you was turnin' me down, but I guess I was mistaken. But you can't lick me, Mart, in a stand-up fight. I've got the reach on you."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He could only plead an ignorance of his own heart, and a mistaken confidence in the force of his engagement.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
