mistakable

[ mi-stey-kuh-buhl ]

adjective

1. capable of being or liable to be mistaken mistaken or misunderstood.

mistakable

/ mɪˈsteɪkəbəl /

adjective

1. liable to be mistaken

Derived Forms

• misˈtakably, adverb

Other Words From

• mis·taka·ble·ness noun
• mis·taka·bly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of mistakable¹

First recorded in 1640–50; mistake + -able

Example Sentences

Maybe in a bigger house this blast would be mistakable.

From Literature

Some of the word choice was the same as in the Times, but these reporters firmly cast the action as wildly inappropriate revenge, rather than anything mistakable as a normal reaction:

From Salon

No longer mistakable as an everyday internet partisan, he posted repeatedly about “unconquered Seminoles,” a reference to the tribe that he appears to have adopted.

From New York Times

Late last week, eight floors above a Five Guys in a common space of a completely mistakable building, the man who created the most famous game console spoke to a crowd of maybe 100 people.

From The Verge

I saw all around this forest hundreds of evenly scattered, identically sized ponds with trees sparsely distributed in a uniform way between them, the whole arrangement giving the un­mistakable impression of following a design.

From Literature