Crossword-Solution: MISTAKE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mistake | v. t. | To make or form amiss; to spoil in making. |
| Mistake | v. t. | To take or choose wrongly. |
| Mistake | v. t. | To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. |
| Mistake | v. t. | To substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake one person for another. |
| Mistake | v. t. | To have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge. |
| Mistake | v. i. | To err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error. |
| Mistake | n. | An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct. |
| Mistake | n. | Misconception, error, which when non-negligent may be ground for rescinding a contract, or for refusing to perform it. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MISTAKE | anagram | MAKESIT, SKITEAM |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with MISTAKE (5)
The Mole and His Mother A MOLE, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother: “I am sure than I can see, Mother!” In the desire to prove to him his mistake, his Mother placed before him a few grains of frankincense, and asked, “What is it?” The young Mole said, “It is a pebble.” His Mother exclaimed: “My son, I am afraid that you are not only blind, but that you have lost your sense of smell.” The Herdsman and the Lost Bull A HERDSMAN tending his flock in a forest lost a Bull-calf from the fold.
Such being my conjectures, any one acquainted with the appearance of New Bedford may very readily infer how palpably I must have seen my mistake.
GABRIEL’S RESOLVE—THE VISIT—THE MISTAKE The only superiority in women that is tolerable to the rival sex is, as a rule, that of the unconscious kind, but a superiority which recognizes itself may sometimes please by suggesting at the same time possibilities of impropriation to the subordinated man.
Notional cause of a novice's mistake made by the experienced, especially one made while running as {root} under UNIX, e.g., typing `rm -r *' or `mkfs' on a mounted file system.
Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.
Quotes with MISTAKE (3)
Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.
No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.
The common prejudice that love is as common as "romance" may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry. But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 46 times in crossword archives (1947–2023).