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What (who) is mistaken - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Mistaken (disambiguation)
mistaken
1.
If you are mistaken about something, you are wrong about it.
I see I was mistaken about you...
You couldn't be more mistaken, Alex. You've utterly misread the situation.
= wrong
ADJ: v-link ADJ, oft ADJ about n
•
You use expressions such as if I'm not mistaken and unless I'm very much mistaken as a polite way of emphasizing the statement you are making, especially when you are confident that it is correct.
I think he wanted to marry her, if I am not mistaken...
Unless I'm mistaken, he didn't specify what time.
PHRASE: PHR with cl [emphasis]
2.
A mistaken belief or opinion is incorrect.
...a limited understanding of addiction and mistaken beliefs about how it can be overcome.
ADJ: ADJ n
• mistakenly
He says they mistakenly believed the standard licenses they held were sufficient.
ADV: ADV with v
mistaken
adj.
1) mistaken about; in
2) mistaken for (she was mistaken for her sister)
mistaken
a.
1.
Erroneous, incorrect, wrong.
2.
Wrong, in error.
Wikipedia
Mistaken
Mistaken may refer to:
- Mistaken (novel), a 2011 novel by Neil Jordan
- Mistaken Creek, a stream in Kentucky
- Mistaken identity, a claim of the actual innocence of a criminal defendant
- Mistaken Point, Newfoundland and Labrador, a small Canadian headland
Examples of use of mistaken
1. The Japanese reactionaries are seriously mistaken, however.
2. However, the information provided is grossly mistaken.
3. Simplistic historical comparisons are almost always mistaken.
4. She is often mistaken for a pushover, just as her house is mistaken for chaotic, when it is actually very well ordered.
5. "It‘s a kind of, um, it‘s an apathy that‘s mistaken for either reclusiveness or arrogance or could be mistaken for confidence.