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What is the adjective for mistaken?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb mistake which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

mistaken
  1. Erroneous.
  2. (with a copula verb, often with about) Having an incorrect belief.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. wrong, incorrect, erroneous, false, inaccurate, fallacious, unfounded, unsound, faulty, inappropriate, inexact, flawed, out, untrue, off-beam, off target, off-target, in error, in the wrong, off base, off track, off beam, off the mark, way off, way off beam, wrongly identified, barking up the wrong tree, labouring under a misapprehension, wide of mark, wide of the mark, barking up wrong tree, misleading, specious, delusory, deceptive, delusive, misguided, spurious, invalid, imprecise, off, fictitious, imaginary, illusory, untruthful, deceitful, fanciful, unreal, distorted, defective … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “He is an amateur pundit, if I am not mistaken, but one of the most insightful writers around.”
      “Investigators said this weekend that those reports may prove to be a case of mistaken identity.”
mistakable
  1. Possible to be mistaken or misunderstood.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. misleading, confusing, misconstruable, misinterpretable, confusable, misreadable, misunderstandable, false, deceptive, fallacious, spurious, specious, delusive, delusory, deceitful, wrong, inaccurate, illusory, deceiving, mock, beguiling, deluding, pseudo, distorted, sophistical, tricky, disingenuous, casuistic, ambiguous, evasive, misrepresentative, casuistical, unstraightforward, equivocal, confounding, bewildering, demagogic, catchy, perplexing, distracting, puzzling … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Any of us could've made that mistake. It was absolutely mistakable.”
      “It's all almost totally mistakable as just another Nordic garage rock band.”
      “It would have been mistakable for a mortal village if it wasn't for all the cloaks and hats that hid the cobbled street from view.”
mistakeable
  1. Alternative form of mistakable
  2. Examples:
      3. “It's a five-door hatchback, potentially mistakeable for as many as 730 other currently available five-door hatchbacks.”
mistakeless
  1. Without any mistakes.
mistaking
  1. present participle of mistake
  2. Synonyms:
      3. not understanding, misunderstanding, misapprehending, misconceiving, misconstruing, misidentifying, miscomprehending, misperceiving, misinterpreting, misknowing, misreading, misthinking, mistranslating, failing to understand, missing the point, not registering, mixing up, muddling up, not getting, not getting the point, confounding, miscalculating, misapplying, misjudging, misgauging, confusing, mismeasuring, miscounting, misrepresenting, misdeeming, estimating wrongly, judging incorrectly, conflating, miscategorizing, misclassifying, mischaracterizing, misdiagnosing, mislabeling, mislabelling, taking for, wrongly diagnosing, misinterpreting as, mistaking for, confusing with, confounding with, incorrectly diagnosing, mixing up with, underrating, erring, undervaluing … more
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