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单词 thesaurus/articles/a-mistake
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Thesaurus article:a mistake

a mistake

These words refer to things like actions or decisions that accidentally produce an unwanted and usually bad result.

One of the most common words for this ismistake. A mistake is a thing you do or say that has a result you did not expect, and which is often not a positive result.

It was just a silly mistake - no need to apologize.
We made a mistake in letting him go to the party.
"Sorry, but I think that's my umbrella, not yours?" "Oh, my mistake!"

A common alternative is the nounerror.

He admitted that he'd made an error.
The letter contained a number of typing errors.

A stupid mistake is sometimes described as ablunder.

The company was struggling after a series of financial blunders.

A small mistake can be described as aslip.

It was an understandable slip.

A mistake which causes confusion is often described as amix-up.

There was a mix-up with the bags at the airport.

An embarrassing mistake that someone makes when talking is sometimes described as agaffe.

I made a real gaffe by calling her "Emma", which is the name of his previous girlfriend.

The nounoversightis sometimes used to describe a mistake which someone makes by forgetting to do something.

The payment was delayed because of an oversight in the accounting department.

A mistake in which you say something that you did not intend to say is described as aslip of the tongue.

It was a slip of the tongue - I meant to say "painless" not "painful".

A mistake in printed text is called amisprintortypo.

The newspaper article was full of misprints.
Read over your CV carefully to make sure there are no typos.
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