An error or fault resulting from defective judgment, deficient knowledge, or carelessness, a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention, an understanding of something that is not correct, verb_ identify incorrectly, to make a mistake or be incorrect, transitive verb_ To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive, To err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error, intransitive verb_ To understand wrongly; misinterpret, To recognize or identify incorrectly