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In some senses, amiss is marked as archaic, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
amiss
/əˈmɪs/
adv 3adj 1noun 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
done, feared, suspected, worried
VERB + AMISS
came, choose, comes, don't, go, seemed, take, tell
AMISS + NOUN
arrangements, bade, himself, i'm, yanni
PREP.
in, on, with
ADV.
absolutely, also
Definitions
adj
1
Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect.
He suspected something was amiss.
Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff.
adv
1
Wrongly; mistakenly
The fire seven times tried this: Seven times tried that judgement is, That did never choose amiss. Some there be that shadows kiss: Such have but a shadow's bliss. There be fools alive, I wis, Silver'd o'er; and so was this. I will ever be your head: So be gone: you are sped.
We shall not do amiss to notice, also, that in ordinary conversation, a few words are used as Turkish singulars, which are, in reality, Arabic plurals; but this is not correct in writing.
2
Astray.
3
Imperfectly.
noun
1
Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.
Now by my head (said Guyon) much I muse, / How that same knight should do so foule amis[…].
Yet Love, thou'rt blinder then thy self in this, / To vex my Dove-like friend for my amiss[…].
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adverb — in an imperfect or faulty way
- imperfectly
adverb — away from the correct or expected course
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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He suspected something was amiss.
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Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff.
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His wisdom and virtue cannot always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances.
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The fire seven times tried this: Seven times tried that judgement is, That did never choose amiss. Some there be that shadows kiss: Such have but a shadow's bliss. There be fools alive, I wis, Silver'
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We shall not do amiss to notice, also, that in ordinary conversation, a few words are used as Turkish singulars, which are, in reality, Arabic plurals; but this is not correct in writing.
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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 he
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