About The Word Amiss
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What's The Definition Of Amiss?
[adv] in an imperfect or faulty way; "The lobe was imperfectly developed"; "Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practiced more"- Jane Austen
[adv] 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" [adv] away from the correct or expected course; "something has gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss in the preparations" Synonyms | Synonyms for Amiss: awry | imperfectly Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 See Also | Amiss In Webster's Dictionary \A*miss"\, adv. [Pref. a- + miss.]
Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.
What error drives our eyes and ears amiss? --Shak.
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. --James
iv. 3.
{To take (an act, thing) amiss}, to impute a wrong motive to
(an act or thing); to take offense at; to take unkindly;
as, you must not take these questions amiss.
\A*miss"\ ([.a]*m[i^]s"), a. Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice. Note: [Used only in the predicate.] --Dryden. His wisdom and virtue can not always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances. --Wollaston. \A*miss"\, n. A fault, wrong, or mistake. [Obs.] Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss. --Shak. |
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