i Register
In some senses, amiss is marked as archaic, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
adj
Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect.
He suspected something was amiss.
Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff.
adv
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.
Astray.
Imperfectly.
noun
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[…].