amiss

UK /əˈmɪs/ US /əˈmɪs/
adv 3adj 1noun 1

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[…].

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