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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: нела́дно (ru) (neládno), не та́к (ne ták) (colloquial)
• 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.
   • 1899, The Laxdaela Saga (translated by Muriel A. C. Press) Chapter 44

     Then Hrefna said she would coif herself with it, and Thurid said she had better, and Hrefna did so. When Kalf saw that he gave her to understand that she had done amiss; and bade her take it off at her swiftest. "For that is the one thing that we, Kjartan and I, do not own in common."

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 [...].

Further reading

• “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

• Masis, Samis, Sisam, missa, saims, simas