What is the difference between blunder and mistake?
blunder | mistake |
To make a clumsy or stupid mistake.
To move blindly or clumsily.
* Goldsmith
* Dryden
To cause to make a mistake.
* Ditton
To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.
* Stillingfleet
An error; a blunder.
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(baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard to hit location, but instead ends up in an easy to hit place
To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.
* Shakespeare
* Johnson
To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
* Jonathan Swift
(obsolete, rare) To take or choose wrongly.
Mistake is a synonym of blunder.
In intransitive terms the difference between blunder and mistake
is that blunder is to move blindly or clumsily while mistake is to commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.In transitive terms the difference between blunder and mistake
is that blunder is to do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse while mistake is to understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.blunder
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(wikipedia blunder)Synonyms
* (error) blooper, boo-boo, error, faux pas, fluff, flub, fumble, gaffe, goof, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, thinkoVerb
(en verb)- to blunder in preparing a medical prescription
- I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow.
- blunders on, and staggers every pace
- To blunder an adversary.
- He blunders and confounds all these together.
Anagrams
* ----mistake
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Noun
(en noun)- After it is all over, as stupid a fellow as I am can see that mistakes' were made. I notice, however, that my ' mistakes are never told me until it is too late.
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* Usually make a mistake. SeeVerb
- Sorry, I mistook you for my brother. You look very similar.
- My father's purposes have been mistook .
- A man may mistake the love of virtue for the practice of it.
- Servants mistake , and sometimes occasion misunderstanding among friends.
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