MISTAKEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mistaken mean? 

• MISTAKEN (adjective)
  The adjective MISTAKEN has 2 senses:

1. wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment

2. arising from error

  Familiarity information: MISTAKEN used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISTAKEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment

Synonyms:

misguided; mistaken

Context example:

mistaken identity

Similar:

wrong (contrary to conscience or morality or law)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Arising from error

Synonyms:

false; mistaken

Context example:

a mistaken view of the situation

Similar:

incorrect; wrong (not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth)

 Context examples 

I did think so, but as they never said anything about it, and you came away, I supposed I was mistaken.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I have done such a thing since in later life, or I am mistaken.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then you are mistaken, and you know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort of love of which I am capable.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You are mistaken, said he gently, that is not good company; that is the best.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

No, Mary, you are quite mistaken.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“Have not you mistaken the day?” said Emma.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

My dear Miss Morland, said Henry, in this amiable solicitude for your brother's comfort, may you not be a little mistaken?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Having answered the Count's salutation, I turned to the glass again to see how I had been mistaken.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

If you think that I am going to stand here and see you die without either helping you myself or bringing anyone else to help you, then you have mistaken your man.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But while the Socman lives—Ha, by my soul! if this is not Sir Oliver's step I am the more mistaken.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)