1 [notusuallybeforenoun] ~ (about sb/sth) wrong in your opinion or judgement:
You are completely mistaken about Jane. * Unless I'm very much mistaken, that's Paul's wife over there. * I thought I saw someone I knew, but I must have been mistaken.
2 based on a wrong opinion or bad judgement:
mistaken views / ideas * I told her my secret in the mistaken belief that I could trust her.
mistakenly adverb:
He mistakenly believed that his family would stand by him.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is mistaken a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, mistaken is tagged as adjective.
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