(transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another. / (transitive, obsolete) To misunderstand (someone).

An error; a blunder. / (baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.

plural of mistake

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mistake

present participle of mistake

(obsolete) A mistake.

Possible to be mistaken or misunderstood.

In a mistakable manner

plural of mistaker

One who mistakes.