Mistake vs Misguided - What's the difference?
mistake | misguided |
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.
ill-conceived or not thought through
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misled or mistaken
lacking proper guidance
(misguide)
As verbs the difference between mistake and misguided
is that mistake is to understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else while misguided is (misguide).As a noun mistake
is an error; a blunder.As an adjective misguided is
ill-conceived or not thought through.mistake
English
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.
Synonyms
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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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Derived terms
* mistakelessmisguided
English
Adjective
(en adjective)London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- I believe in freedom of movement and view the current government’s restrictive attitude as both socially and economically misguided . Yet I fear that a special London policy will only exacerbate existing divisions.
- A misguided child may use his personal power in mischievous ways