Amiss

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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                 His wisdom and virtue can not always rectify that
                 which is amiss in himself or his circumstances.
                                                    --Wollaston.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Amiss \A*miss"\, n.
     A fault, wrong, or mistake. [Obs.]
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           Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Amiss \A*miss"\, adv. [Pref. a- + miss.]
     Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.
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           What error drives our eyes and ears amiss? --Shak.
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           Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. --James
                                                    iv. 3.
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     {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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  amiss
       adj : not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone
             completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the
             engine" [syn: {amiss(p)}, {awry(p)}, {haywire}, {wrong(p)}]
       adv 1: away from the correct or expected course; "something has
              gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss
              in the preparations" [syn: {awry}]
       2: 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"
       3: 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 [syn: {imperfectly}]
          [ant: {perfectly}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  136 Moby Thesaurus words for "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