mistakenly en · ADV
Pronunciation
- /mɪˈsteɪ.kən.li/
- (Midwestern-US) audio
Etymology
Etymology tree English mistaken Middle English -ly English -ly English mistakenly From mistaken + -ly.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Wrongly; erroneously.
Most Americans mistakenly believe that they must see specialists for almost every medical problem.
2017 June 3, Jamie Koufman, “The Specialists’ Stranglehold on Medicine”, in The New York Times:The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily paused a lower court-ordered deadline to return to the US a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, granting the Trump administration additional time to review the case.
2025 April 8, Hanna Park, “A timeline of the legal battle over the mistaken deportation of a Maryland father to El Salvador”, in CNN:I mistakenly assumed that the shop was still there.
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(not-comparable) By accident; by mistake; in error (without intention to do so).
Today I mistakenly took your packed lunch to work.
Relateds
mistook · mistake · mistakingly · mistaken
Translations (43)
pl przez pomyłkę (by accident) · fi vahingossa (by accident) · pt erroneamente (by accident) · hu tévesen (wrongly) · pt erradamente (by accident) · ta தவறாக (by accident) · fr à tort (wrongly) · el κατά λάθος (by accident) · es por equivocación (by accident) · ny mwatsoka (by accident) · hu tévedésből (by accident) · ta தப்பாக (wrongly) · ur غلطی سے (by accident) · az səhvən (wrongly) · fr à tort (by accident) · ta தவறுதலாக (by accident) · ta தவறாக (wrongly) · ru по оши́бке (by accident) · el λανθασμένα (wrongly) · fi virheellisesti (wrongly) · fr par erreur (by accident) · ja 誤って (by accident) · az səhvən (by accident) · it erroneamente (by accident) · pl błędnie (wrongly) · es erradamente (by accident) · pt equivocadamente (by accident) · cmn 錯誤地 /错误地 (by accident) · az yanlış (wrongly) · el εσφαλμένα (wrongly) · fi erehdyksessä (by accident) · de versehentlich (by accident) · eo erare (wrongly) · de aus Versehen (by accident) · es equivocadamente (by accident) · ar خَطَأً (by accident) · fr sans faire exprès (by accident) · de irrtümlich (wrongly) · es erróneamente (by accident) · es por error (by accident) · ru оши́бочно (by accident) · tr yanlışlıkla (by accident) · es sin querer (by accident)