mistakable


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mis·tak·a·ble

 (mĭ-stā′kə-bəl)
adj.
Capable of being mistaken or misunderstood: mistakable signals.

mis·tak′a·bly adv.
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mistakable

(mɪˈsteɪkəbəl) or

mistakeable

adj
liable to be mistaken
misˈtakably, misˈtakeably adv
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.mistakable - so similar as to be easily identified for another thing; "potentially confusable senses of words"; "easily mistakable signals"
similar - marked by correspondence or resemblance; "similar food at similar prices"; "problems similar to mine"; "they wore similar coats"
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Translations

mistakable

[mɪsˈteɪkəbl] ADJconfundible
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mistakable

adj the twins are easily mistakableman kann die Zwillinge leicht miteinander verwechseln
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after all, it is not imagined Greece, dreamy, antique Sicily, but the present world about us, though mistakable for a moment, delightfully, for the land, the age, of Sappho, of Theocritus:--
When I looked again, the busy handling-machine had already put together several of the pieces of apparatus it had taken out of the cylinder into a shape having an un- mistakable likeness to its own; and down on the left a busy little digging mechanism had come into view, emitting jets of green vapour and working its way round the pit, excavating and embanking in a methodical and discriminating manner.
So again, they will not be mistakable for any other kind of ballots," he said.
Such an onslaught against the multilateral efforts and its respected norms, as manifested during the past two years, is as mistakable as it is even dangerous, Salehi said.
Ribs may be more mistakable for twigs in wooded environments, leading to their discard in sorted leaf litter due primarily to their shape, not overall size, and hence their recovery at a rate nearly identical to that of a much smaller element type.