Usually means: Incorrectly identified or understood something.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word mistakenly:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. mistakenly: Merriam-Webster
  2. mistakenly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mistakenly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. mistakenly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Mistakenly, mistakenly: Wordnik
  6. mistakenly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. mistakenly: Wiktionary
  8. Mistakenly, mistakenly: Dictionary.com
  9. Mistakenly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. mistakenly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. mistakenly: Rhymezone
  12. Mistakenly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. mistakenly: FreeDictionary.org
  14. mistakenly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. mistakenly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mistakenly: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mistakenly)

▸ adverb:  wrongly, erroneously
▸ adverb:  by accident, by mistake, in error (without intention to do so)

Similar:
erroneously, mistakingly, wrongly, mistakedly, wrongeously, amiss, mistakeably, wrongously, uncorrectly, on accident, more...

Opposite:
correctly, accurately, precisely

Types:
erroneously, inaccurately, incorrectly, more...

Phrases:
mistakenly believe, mistakenly suggested, closed mistakenly, more...

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     taupe,     mauve,     olive, more...



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Similar:
erroneously, mistakingly, wrongly, mistakedly, wrongeously, amiss, mistakeably, wrongously, uncorrectly, on accident, more...

Opposite:
correctly, accurately, precisely

Types:
erroneously, inaccurately, incorrectly, more...

Phrases:
mistakenly believe, mistakenly suggested, closed mistakenly, more...

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     taupe,     mauve,     olive, more...



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