mistake vs smear

smear vs mistake

mistake and smear both are nouns.

mistake and smear both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mistake	Yes	No	Yes	No
smear	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, smear is a hyponym of mistake; that is, smear is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than mistake:

mistake: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
smear: an act that brings discredit to the person who does it

Other hyponyms of mistake include blot, smirch, spot, stain, confusion, mix-up, incursion, miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning, distortion, miscue, parapraxis, slip-up, slip, offside, lapse, oversight, omission, skip, bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall, balls-up, ballup, cockup, mess-up, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity, renege, revoke.

mistake (noun)	smear (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
an understanding of something that is not correct	a blemish made by dirt
part of a statement that is not correct	a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope
	slanderous defamation

mistake (verb)	smear (verb)
to make a mistake or be incorrect	charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
identify incorrectly	make a smudge on; soil by smudging
	stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
	cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it

Difference between mistake and smear

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