mistakenly

English

Etymology

From mistaken +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈsteɪ.kən.li/

Adverb

mistakenly (not comparable)

1. wrongly, erroneously

   I mistakenly assumed that the shop was still there.

2. by accident, by mistake, in error (without intention to do so)

   Today I mistakenly took your packed lunch to work.

Related terms

• mistake
• mistaken
• mistakingly
• mistook

Translations

wrongly

• Finnish: virheellisesti (fi)
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• Hungarian: tévesen

by accident

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錯誤地／错误地 (zh), 错误地 (zh) (cuòwù de)

• Finnish: vahingossa (fi), erehdyksessä
• French: par erreur (fr), à tort (fr)
• German: irrtümlicherweise (de)
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• Hungarian: tévedésből
• Italian: erroneamente (it)
• Japanese: 誤って (あやまって, ayamatte)
• Portuguese: erradamente, equivocadamente, erroneamente
• Russian: оши́бочно (ru) (ošíbočno), по оши́бке (po ošíbke)
• Spanish: equivocadamente (es), erróneamente (es), erradamente, sin querer (es), por error, por equivocación