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mistake (n, v): an action, decision, or judgment that produces an unwanted or unintentionalresult; to be wrong about or to fail to recognize something or someone
Use “mistake” in a sentence
I will do my best to ensure that such mistakes do not occur in future. |
That book is full of mistakes. |
I put my gloves on inside out by mistake. |
I made a huge mistake. |
We all make mistakes. |
You’re making a huge mistake. |
I took his umbrella by mistake.
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Definition of Mistake
an error or slip-up
Examples of Mistake in a sentence
The mom made a mistake when she bought cake instead of vanilla.
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It was a mistake to go to the beach on a holiday, since the shores were too packed to have any fun.
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The GPS made a mistake and caused me to be lost when it told me to take a left instead of a right.
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Adding up the numbers, the teacher made a mistake when she added the 2 and the 4.
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Apologizing for his error, the cheating husband promised to never make the same mistake.
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Mistake sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use mistake in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for mistake.
- All a mistake! (8)
- An awful mistake! (8)
- It was no mistake! (6)
- You mistake me. (10)
- It was all a mistake. (12)
- Great mistake, I admit. (10)
- Mistake to have a heart! (8)
- You have made a mistake. (9)
- But, you really mistake. (10)
- Any mistake would be fatal. (8)
- The mistake had been slight. (4)
- Edward perceived his mistake. (10)
- Edward perceived his mistake. (22)
- Mr. Weston, do not mistake me. (4)
- The demonstration was a mistake. (10)
- There must, then, be some mistake. (8)
- I saw him seized in mistake for me. (10)
- It was a note: I have made a mistake. (8)
- I knew it was a mistake my coming back. (8)
- She did not mean to make a second mistake. (8)
- And the mistake of Providence was rectified. (8)
- I made a mistake to lose my temper with her. (8)
- If I mistake not, you are fond of the picturesque. (10)
- But there could be no mistake that she was a success. (9)
- Quite frankly, he made a mistake to have me spied on. (8)
- Shocked beyond measure by the mistake he had made, Mr. (8)
- Ye made a mistake to think that we would come to heel. (8)
- And did you by mistake leave your latch key in the door? (8)
- She was fairly caught in the web of her foolish and presumptuous mistake! (8)
- Within a week she knew the fearful mistake she had made. (8)
- Had she made a mistake in summoning Mrs. Noel to nurse him? (8)
- Not a hope of imposition or mistake was harboured anywhere. (4)
- The joy of knowing that he had not made a mistake was great. (9)
- There was never any mistake about the Oise, as a matter of fact. (2)
- If he did not mistake, Leila Lynch had always had a terrific time. (8)
- Of course, I think he made a great mistake to bring her down here. (8)
- She did not mistake it for tenderness, as another would have done. (10)
- It was Irene; he could not mistake her walk in that little drab street. (8)
- It was amazing that she could have this feeling; yet there was no mistake. (8)
- I am exceedingly sorry: but it is well that the mistake ends where it does. (4)
- There has been some very great mistake; we have been all mistaken, I fancy. (4)
- There could be no mistake about him as a gentleman and a scholar out there! (10)
- He was quick to profit by any hint, and he never made the same mistake twice. (9)
- I conceived you to be a mere little romantic person, and correct my mistake. (10)
- It lies in the fundamental mistake that he makes in the matter of publicity. (16)
- On she sped, as if she had made the mistake of exchanging words with a post. (10)
- My dear Alicia, of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a man of his age! (4)
- And I really think, dear Edward, that it will be a mistake to oppose it rigidly. (8)
- He was soon undeceived, but the knowledge of his mistake in no way daunted him. (19)
- She might as well mistake black for white as to believe that Lienhard cared for her. (5)
- But it would have been a great mistake to mistake his mildness for softness. (9)
- No one, countess, I assure you, has ever before made the quaint mistake of asking me for money. (12)
- I think we make a mistake when we suppose that a beautiful woman must always be vain or conscious. (9)
- He resolved to stay and teach her that the presumption she had imputed to him was her own mistake. (10)
- The chief comfort she gave was by saying that he had been originally arrested in mistake for his cousin Angelo. (10)
- For there was your mistake, my dear, ever to leave your husband to go away from ye one hour in a young marriage. (10)
- I know that they are often envied and hated for it by those who have no such choice, but that is a pathetic mistake. (9)
- Since her return, Rosek had begun to come again, very careful not to repeat his mistake, but not deceiving her at all. (8)
- That she had made a mistake, and did not love him, had tried to love him and could not love him, was obviously no reason. (8)
- At those words the old lady, who was a great lover of animals, was so affected that she pinched the young lady by mistake. (8)
- Harriet observed that this might be true; but still, to her mind, it was a mistake to be too intimate with dangerous people. (10)
- Later, he wrote me with a humorous joy in his mistake that Warner had advised him to have the paper watched for these injuries. (9)
- Let him not make the common mistake of measuring the value of a department by the amount of related advertising that it attracts. (16)
- Governor de Montmagny bade the pioneers welcome, and, after listening to their scheme, told them flatly that he thought it was all a mistake. (19)
- As if he realized the mistake he had made in trying to bully his accomplice, he began to put forward his personal difficulties apologetically. (13)
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noun
an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
a misunderstanding or misconception.
verb (used with object), mis·took [mi-stook], /mɪˈstʊk/, mis·tak·en [mi-stey-kuhn], /mɪˈsteɪ kən/, mis·tak·ing.
to regard or identify wrongly as something or someone else:I mistook him for the mayor.
to understand, interpret, or evaluate wrongly; misunderstand; misinterpret.
verb (used without object), mis·took [mi-stook], /mɪˈstʊk/, mis·tak·en [mi-stey-kuhn], /mɪˈsteɪ kən/, mis·tak·ing.
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Idioms about mistake
and no mistake, for certain; surely: He’s an honorable person, and no mistake.
Origin of mistake
First recorded in 1300–30; Middle English mistaken (verb), from Old Norse mistaka “to take in error.” see origin at mis-1, take
synonym study for mistake
1. Mistake, blunder, error, slip refer to deviations from right, accuracy, correctness, or truth. A mistake, grave or trivial, is caused by bad judgment or a disregard of rule or principle: It was a mistake to argue. A blunder is a careless, stupid, or gross mistake in action or speech, suggesting awkwardness, heedlessness, or ignorance: Through his blunder the message was lost. An error (often interchanged with mistake ) is an unintentional wandering or deviation from accuracy, or right conduct: an error in addition. A slip is usually a minor mistake made through haste or carelessness: a slip of the tongue.
words often confused with mistake
OTHER WORDS FROM mistake
mis·tak·er, nounmis·tak·ing·ly, adverbun·mis·tak·ing, adjectiveun·mis·tak·ing·ly, adverb
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH mistake
misnomer, mistake (see confusables note at misnomer)
Words nearby mistake
misstrike, missus, missy, mist, mistakable, mistake, mistake for, mistaken, mistakenly, mistal, Mistassini
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Words related to mistake
aberration, blunder, confusion, fault, gaffe, inaccuracy, lapse, miscalculation, misconception, misstep, omission, oversight, snafu, confuse, miscalculate, misconstrue, misinterpret, misjudge, misread, overestimate
How to use mistake in a sentence
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You’ve got to have the ability to block out past mistakes, or even the future.
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What’s more, not every speaker may be fluent, meaning that a child hearing more languages might also hear mistakes.
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She tried following the instructions but made so many mistakes that “it made my whole screen just look red,” she said.
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UNC-Miami postponed after two Tar Heels are shown celebrating Duke win without masks“Every little mistake we made, they just took advantage of it,” Wiggins said, referencing Ohio State’s 21 points off turnovers.
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On Sunday, she updated her accounts to show that she had started the process of trying to remove what is presumably one of the worst mistakes of her life.
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This time it would be the biggest mistake for the Western press to repeat that—absolutely the biggest mistake.
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Scalise has called the talk, which he delivered in a hotel outside New Orleans, “a mistake I regret.”
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Scalise offered his contrition that he had made a mistake and apologized for appearing before a group some 12 years ago.
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Make no mistake: The technology exists—has existed for a long while—to stop this from happening.
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I made the mistake of promising one group of guys they could ask me anything if they answered my questions.
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Instead of giving you a chance to say, «He has made a mistake,» he forced you to say, «He has shown how to get out of a mistake.»
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My mother now tells me that she knew of this mistake, an error of the New York paper in copying the item from a Southern journal.
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I must make no mistake, and blunder into a national type of features, all wrong; if I make your mask, it must do us credit.
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They never knew how it got there, but thinking it was by mistake, Glavis took it into the house and spread it out.
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«Yes, there has been a mistake,» she said peevishly, turning in with him to a small room they used as a breakfast-room.
British Dictionary definitions for mistake
noun
an error or blunder in action, opinion, or judgment
a misconception or misunderstanding
verb -takes, -taking, -took or -taken
(tr) to misunderstand; misinterpretshe mistook his meaning
(tr foll by for) to take (for), interpret (as), or confuse (with)she mistook his direct manner for honesty
(tr) to choose badly or incorrectlyhe mistook his path
(intr) to make a mistake in action, opinion, judgment, etc
Derived forms of mistake
mistaker, noun
Word Origin for mistake
C13 (meaning: to do wrong, err): from Old Norse mistaka to take erroneously
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Other Idioms and Phrases with mistake
In addition to the idiom beginning with mistake
- mistake for
also see:
- by mistake
- make no mistake
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