Need another word that means the same as “mistaken”? Find 12 synonyms and 30 related words for “mistaken” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Mistaken” are: misguided, false, wrong, erroneous, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, out, fallacious, unsound, unfounded, wide of the mark
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “mistaken” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| erroneous | Wrong; incorrect. Employers sometimes make erroneous assumptions. |
| fallacious | Intended to deceive. Fallacious hope. |
| false | Used in names of plants animals and gems that superficially resemble the thing properly so called e g false oat. False tales of bravery. |
| inaccurate | Not exact. A forecast that proved wildly inaccurate. |
| incorrect | Not in accord with established usage or procedure. It is incorrect for a policeman to accept gifts. |
| inexact | Not exact. An inexact description. |
| misguided | Poorly conceived or thought out. Their misguided belief that they were defending the honour of their country. |
| out | Of the ball in tennis and similar games outside the designated playing area. In our house dancing and playing cards were out. |
| unfounded | Without a basis in reason or fact. Unfounded suspicions. |
| unsound | Physically unsound or diseased. Dorinda was mentally unsound. |
| wide of the mark | Great in degree. |
| wrong | Based on or acting or judging in error. The wrong medicine. |
| blunder | Utter impulsively. He knew he d blundered. |
| clanger | An absurd or embarrassing blunder. The minister had dropped a massive political clanger. |
| correct | Correct in opinion or judgment. Data were corrected for radionuclide decay. |
| corrigible | Capable of being corrected, rectified, or reformed. A corrigible defect. |
| defect | A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person’s body. Visual defects. |
| defective | A person with mental disabilities. Complaints over defective goods. |
| disinformation | Misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc. The entire Western intelligence system had been systematically manipulated with clever disinformation. |
| err | To make a mistake or be incorrect. He has erred and strayed as many of us have. |
| erroneous | Wrong; incorrect. Erroneous conclusions. |
| error | A measure of the estimated difference between the observed or calculated value of a quantity and its true value. She was quick to point out my errors. |
| fallible | Likely to fail or make errors. Experts can be fallible. |
| faulty | Having or displaying weaknesses. Faulty logic. |
| flaw | Add a flaw or blemish to make imperfect or defective. The computer game was flawed by poor programming. |
| flawed | Having or characterized by a fundamental weakness or imperfection. A flawed hero. |
| inaccurate | Not exact. An inaccurate translation. |
| inadvertence | An unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something. |
| incorrect | (of a word or expression) not agreeing with grammatical principles. An incorrect calculation. |
| lapse | A decline from previously high standards. Tracing his lapse into petty crime. |
| misconceive | Interpret in the wrong way. Some academic latinists did misconceive Pound s poem in that way. |
| misconception | An incorrect conception. Public misconceptions about antibiotic use. |
| misconstrue | Interpret in the wrong way. She misconstrued my remarks. |
| misinformation | Information that is incorrect. Nuclear matters are often entangled in a web of secrecy and misinformation. |
| misleading | Designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently. Your article contains a number of misleading statements. |
| misunderstand | Fail to interpret or understand (something) correctly. Don t misunderstand me I m not implying she should be working. |
| omission | Neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something. She searched the table for omissions. |
| oversight | The action of overseeing something. Effective oversight of the financial reporting process. |
| slip | A reduction in the movement of a pulley or other mechanism due to slipping of the belt rope etc. We slipped out by a back door. |
| solecism | A grammatical mistake in speech or writing. |
| typo | A typographical error. |
| wrong | Treat unjustly do wrong to. Cheating is wrong. |
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