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  1. The meaning of MISTAKE is to blunder in the choice of. How to use mistake in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Mistake.

  2. Synonyms for MISTAKE: blunder, error, misjudgment, miscalculation, trip, misstep, misunderstanding, misapprehension; Antonyms of MISTAKE: accuracy, precision, correctness, exactness, exactitude, strictness, perfection, preciseness.

  3. A mistake is an error, a goof, a slip-up. When you make a mistake, you've done something incorrectly. Mistake has a lot of uses, but they all have to do with doing the wrong thing. A mistake in math class will result in the wrong answer, but a mistake with a gun could get someone killed.

  4. to be wrong about or to fail to recognize something or someone: You can't mistake their house - it has a bright yellow front door. formal I mistook your signature and thought the letter was from someone else. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

  5. 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.

  6. mistake. noun. /mɪˈsteɪk/ Idioms. an action or an opinion that is not correct, or that produces a result that you did not want. It's easy to make a mistake. Don't worry, we all make mistakes. You are making a big mistake. Leaving school so young was the biggest mistake of my life. a terrible/serious/huge mistake.

  7. 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.

  8. noun. /mɪˈsteɪk/. an action or an opinion that is not correct, or that produces a result that you did not want It's easy to make a mistake. This letter is addressed to someone else—there must be some mistake. It would be a mistake to ignore his opinion. Don't worry, we all make mistakes.

  9. mistake. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English mis‧take1 /məˈsteɪk/ S2 W2 noun 1 [ countable] something that has been done in the wrong way, or an opinion or statement that is incorrect → error mistake in We may have made a mistake in our calculations.

  10. 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.

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