mistakenly
55
3.1
- adverb
- /mɪˈsteɪkənli/
:
por error
- Of course, we mistakenly believe we've got free will.
- mistakenly thought
- mistakenly believe
- mistakenly assumed
So you don't want to mistakenly assume that this always means this.
- So you don't want to mistakenly assume that this always means this.
- And yet still it's Henry Russell that is often mistakenly credited for that result.
- And it had been mistakenly presented as safe for civilians.
- And a lot of us mistakenly invest based on someone's attention.
- And I think that a lot of people mistakenly think they're bad at things they haven't even learned how to try.
- And the VHS tape had mistakenly been inserted into a machine in the nuclear bunker beneath the Pentagon.
- I also believe that I mistakenly referred to normative ethics at one point as theoretical ethics.
- With regards to confidence, I think people mistakenly believe that confidence is something that's bestowed on you and it's not something that's given, it's earned.
- You find that people will mistakenly want to pick from the larger number.
- Finds out that that fence was actually mistakenly built in the middle of a main thorough way.
- This wasn't the first time scientists yelled aliens mistakenly, and it certainly won't be the last.
Examples
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I mistakenly identified the wrong person as the winner of the contest.
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I was surprised because I mistakenly thought, like you, that it was the other way around.
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You find that people will mistakenly want to pick from the larger number.
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And it had been mistakenly presented as safe for civilians.
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And yet still it's Henry Russell that is often mistakenly credited for that result.
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I mistakenly used the last year's datebook and sent you out a full 24 hours early.
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Thus, universal programs are often mistakenly criticized as doing little to eliminate or reduce poverty.
Academic text (1991) -
Acting upon false information which they believe to be accurate, students may mistakenly put themselves at risk of infection.
Academic text (2015) -
Veteran teachers have a wealth of experience that districts mistakenly discount when consulting a knowledge base.
Academic text (1993) -
- He mistakenly believes he has a reason to hate us because of a certain excesses in Latvia.
Synonyms
354
1.4
In a way that is not planned and happens by mistake
68
5.2
Without meaning to do something
65
2.7
In a way that is not correct or fair
57
1.7
In the wrong way
32
3.4
Without meaning to
29
6.0
In a way you do not know you are doing
7
4.2
In a way that is not correct or exact
2
1.0
In a way that is not correct
1
8.0
In a wrong or wandering way that strays from what is expected
In a wrong or broken way
In a clumsy, careless way that often causes mistakes
Antonyms
How Wrong
55
3.1
65
2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mistakenly comes from the word mistake, which is built from mis- meaning 'wrong' and take meaning 'to take or understand', so it originally meant 'to take something the wrong way'. So, to do something mistakenly is to do it 'in a wrong way' or 'because of an error'.