amiss

English

Etymology

From .

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /əˈmɪs/

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ɪs

Adjective

amiss (comparative more amiss, superlative most amiss)

1. Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect

   He suspected something was amiss.

   Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff.

   • Wollaston

     His wisdom and virtue cannot always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances.

Translations

wrong (postpositive)

• Finnish: väärin (fi)
• Italian: sbagliato (it), erroneo (it), improprio (it)
• Portuguese: errado (pt)
• Russian: нела́дно (ru) (neládno), не та́к (ne ták) (colloquial)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: mal (es)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can

wrong — see wrong

Adverb

amiss (comparative more amiss, superlative most amiss)

1. (archaic) Mistakenly
2. (archaic) Astray
3. (archaic) Wrongly.

Noun

amiss (plural amisses)

1. (obsolete) Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     Now by my head (said Guyon) much I muse, / How that same knight should do so foule amis [...].

   • 1635, John Donne, "His parting from her":

     Yet Love, thou'rt blinder then thy self in this, / To vex my Dove-like friend for my amiss [...].

External links

• “amiss”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “amiss”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• missa
• saims
• Samis