Definition of Mistaken

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Definition of Mistaken
	Mistaken of Mistake Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion. Related Definitions: As, Being, Erroneous, Error, Having, He, In, Is, Judging, Man, Misconception, Mistake, Mistaken, Notion, Of, Opinion, Or, Wrong, Wrongly

Mistaken Quotations

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Benjamin Franklin

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
Jane Austen

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.
Donald Trump

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Ambrose Bierce

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Ambrose Bierce

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
Edmund Burke

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.
Chief Joseph

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
Marshall McLuhan

Mistaken Translations

mistaken in Afrikaans is verkeerd, onjuis
mistaken in Dutch is foutief, verkeerd, fout, onjuist
mistaken in German is vertan, geirrt
mistaken in Norwegian is urett
mistaken in Portuguese is confundido
mistaken in Spanish is malo, alucinar

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