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amiss
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As an adjective, amiss means wrong. As an adverb, it means astray.
Meanings of amiss
9 meaningsadjective
chiefly predicativeWrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect.
“He suspected something was amiss.”
“Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff.”
adverb
Astray.
Imperfectly.
Away from the correct or expected course
“something has gone awry in our plans”
“something went badly amiss in the preparations”
Similar: awryIn 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”
In an imperfect or faulty way
“The lobe was imperfectly developed”
“Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practiced more”
Similar: imperfectly
Older and rare meanings (1)
archaicWrongly; mistakenly
noun
obsoleteFault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).