adv
Meaning 1
Wrongly; erroneously.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- I mistakenly assumed that the shop was still there.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
mistakenly
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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/mɪˈsteɪ.kən.li/
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adv
Meaning 2
By accident; by mistake; in error (without intention to do so).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- Today I mistakenly took your packed lunch to work.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 3
in a mistaken manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he mistakenly believed it
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: erroneously
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English mistaken Middle English -ly English -ly English mistakenly From mistaken + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
43 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Azerbaijani: yanlış — wrongly
- Azerbaijani: səhvən — wrongly
- Esperanto: erare — wrongly
- Finnish: virheellisesti — wrongly
- French: à tort — wrongly
- German: irrtümlich — wrongly
- Greek: εσφαλμένα (esfalména) — wrongly
- Greek: λανθασμένα (lanthasména) — wrongly
- Hungarian: tévesen — wrongly
- Polish: błędnie — wrongly
- Tamil: தவறாக (tavaṟāka) — wrongly
- Tamil: தப்பாக (tappāka) — wrongly
- Arabic: خَطَأً (ḵaṭaʔan) — by accident
- Azerbaijani: səhvən — by accident
- Chichewa: mwatsoka — by accident
- Chinese Mandarin: 錯誤地 /错误地 (cuòwù de) — by accident
- Finnish: vahingossa — by accident
- Finnish: erehdyksessä — by accident
- French: par erreur — by accident
- French: à tort — by accident
- French: sans faire exprès — by accident
- German: aus Versehen — by accident
- German: versehentlich — by accident
- Greek: κατά λάθος (katá láthos) — by accident
- Hungarian: tévedésből — by accident
- Italian: erroneamente — by accident
- Japanese: 誤って (ayamatte) — by accident
- Polish: przez pomyłkę — by accident
- Portuguese: erradamente — by accident
- Portuguese: equivocadamente — by accident
- Portuguese: erroneamente — by accident
- Russian: оши́бочно (ošíbočno) — by accident
- Russian: по оши́бке (po ošíbke) — by accident
- Spanish: equivocadamente — by accident
- Spanish: erróneamente — by accident
- Spanish: erradamente — by accident
- Spanish: sin querer — by accident
- Spanish: por error — by accident
- Spanish: por equivocación — by accident
- Tamil: தவறாக (tavaṟāka) — by accident
- Tamil: தவறுதலாக (tavaṟutalāka) — by accident
- Turkish: yanlışlıkla — by accident
- Urdu: غلطی سے (ġalatī sē) — by accident
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