English > mistake: 5 senses > noun 1, act| Meaning | A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention. |
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| Example | "he made a bad mistake" |
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| Synonyms | error, fault |
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| Narrower | ballup, balls-up, cockup, mess-up | Something badly botched or muddled |
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| blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain | An act that brings discredit to the person who does it |
| blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo | An embarrassing mistake |
| confusion, mix-up | A mistake that results from taking one thing to be another |
| distortion | The mistake of misrepresenting the facts |
| incursion | The mistake of incurring liability or blame |
| miscalculation, misreckoning, misestimation | A mistake in calculating / calculating |
| offside | (sport) the mistake of occupying an illegal position on the playing field (in football, soccer, ice hockey, field hockey, etc.) |
| omission, skip | A mistake resulting from neglect |
| oversight, lapse | A mistake resulting from inattention |
| revoke, renege | The mistake of not following suit when able to do so |
| slip, slip-up, miscue, parapraxis | A minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech / speech / speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. |
| stupidity, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility | A stupid mistake |
| Broader | nonaccomplishment, nonachievement | An act that does not achieve its intended goal |
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| Spanish | equivocación, error, fallo, falta, yerro |
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| Catalan | equivocació, error, falla, falta |
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| Verbs | mistake | to make a mistake or be incorrect |
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