Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being mistaken or misunderstood.
from The Century Dictionary.
- That may be mistaken; liable to be misunderstood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Liable to be mistaken; capable of being misconceived.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Subject to
mistake ormisunderstanding .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective so similar as to be easily identified for another thing
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Examples
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More critical are analogous words that have acquired easily mistakable senses, such as eventually/eventuellement (‘possibly’), actually/actuellement (‘currently’), or to attend/attendre (‘to wait’).
French/english Translation: the Unusual History of the English Language « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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Well, you see, in that movie, Jesus lash out at that high rabbin in no mistakable languages, calig him names and insulting the jews, and going on with "who do you think that you are jews? you think that you are better than the rest of us?!"
Robert De Niro Joining Mel Gibson in Edge of Darkness « FirstShowing.net 2008
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The Clintons must be made to understand in no mistakable terms that this country does not belong to them, and indeed, the democratic party does not belong to them.
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For the lucky few, these ticks are minimal, boring, and mistakable for loveable quirky personality flaws.
Archive 2009-03-01 Aaron M. Wilson 2009
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This may be least true of the long "culottes", trousers most closely resembling a skirt, and at best mistakable for a skirt, but insofar as "culottes" establish the principle of dividing woman's outward apparel from the waist down, they merely disguise the grave disorder.
The Modesty of His Lordship Francis 2006
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This may be least true of the long "culottes", trousers most closely resembling a skirt, and at best mistakable for a skirt, but insofar as "culottes" establish the principle of dividing woman's outward apparel from the waist down, they merely disguise the grave disorder.
Archive 2006-05-01 Francis 2006
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Un-mistakable is the indelible hand writing caption that reads: "me myself" the words are double underlined over the surface of the photonear the bottom corner.
THE IDEA OF VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHS IN MAJOR EXHIBITIONS AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS, CONTINUED 2007
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Nor is their message so brief, and so less than mistakable.
Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994
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Nor is their message so brief, and so less than mistakable.
Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994
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Less mistakable was Mordred himself, riding beside Cerdic at the head of the Saxons.
The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983
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