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amiss
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective amiss has 1 sense
- amiss(s = adj.all) awry, haywire, wrong - not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine"
Adverbial amiss has 3 senses
- amiss(r = adv.all) awry - away from the correct or expected course; "something has gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss in the preparations"
- amiss(r = adv.all) Array - in an improper or mistaken or unfortunate manner; "if you think him guilty you judge amiss"; "he spoke amiss"; "no one took it amiss when she spoke frankly"
- amiss(r = adv.all) imperfectly - in an imperfect or faulty way; "The lobe was imperfectly developed"; "Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practiced more"
CIDE DICTIONARY
amiss, adv. [Pref. a- + miss.].
Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill. [1913 Webster]
"What error drives our eyes and ears amiss?"
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"Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss."
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amiss, a.
Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.
"[Used only in the predicate.]" Dryden.
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"His wisdom and virtue can not always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances."
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amiss, n.
A fault, wrong, or mistake. [1913 Webster]
"Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
amiss, predic.adj. & adv.
--predic.adj. wrong; out of order; faulty (knew something was amiss).
--adv. wrong; wrongly; inappropriately (everything went amiss).
--predic.adj. wrong; out of order; faulty (knew something was amiss).
--adv. wrong; wrongly; inappropriately (everything went amiss).
Idiom
take amiss be offended by (took my words amiss).
Etymology
ME prob. f. ON {agrave} mis so as to miss f. {agrave} on + mis rel. to MISS(1)
THESAURUS
amiss
aberrant, abroad, adrift, afield, all abroad, all off, all wrong, askew, astray, at fault, awry, bad, badly, below the mark, beside the mark, beside the point, blamable, blameful, bootlessly, bum, censurable, cockeyed, confused, convulsed, corrupt, crappy, culpable, deceptive, defective, delusive, deranged, deviant, deviational, deviative, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, dissatisfactory, distorted, disturbed, errant, erring, erroneous, erroneously, evil, evilly, fallacious, fallaciously, false, falsely, far from it, faultful, faultfully, faultily, faulty, flawed, fruitlessly, guilty, haywire, heretical, heterodox, ill, illogical, illusory, imperfect, imperfectly, improper, improperly, in disorder, in vain, inaccurately, inappropriately, incorrect, incorrectly, indiscreetly, inopportunely, misinterpret, misplaced, mistake, mistakenly, misunderstand, not right, not true, off, off the track, on the fritz, out, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, peccant, perturbed, perverse, perverted, poor, poorly, punk, reprehensible, roily, rotten, self-contradictory, shuffled, sick, sinful, straying, to no purpose, turbid, turbulent, unfactual, unfavorably, unholy, unorthodox, unpropitiously, unproved, unsatisfactory, unsettled, untoward, untrue, untruly, unwisely, up, upset, vainly, wide, wrong, wrongly
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