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mistakenly

adv
/mɪˈsteɪ.kən.li/

Etymology

From mistaken + -ly.

  1. derived from mistaka — “to take in error, to miscarry”
  2. inherited from mistaken
  3. suffixed as mistaken — “mistake + n”
  4. formed as mistakenly — “mistaken + -ly”

Definitions

  1. Wrongly

    Wrongly; erroneously.

    • I mistakenly assumed that the shop was still there.
    • Most Americans mistakenly believe that they must see specialists for almost every medical problem.
    • 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.

  2. By accident

    By accident; by mistake; in error (without intention to do so).

    • Today I mistakenly took your packed lunch to work.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at mistakenly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at mistakenly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at mistakenly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA