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Webster 1913 Edition
Amiss
A-miss′
,adv.
[Pref.
a-
+ miss
.] Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.
What error drives our eyes and ears
amiss
? Shakespeare
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask
amiss
. James iv. 3.
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
A-miss′
(ȧ-mĭs′)
, Adj.
Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper;
as, it may not be
. amiss
to ask advice[Used only in the predicate.]
Dryden.
His wisdom and virtue can not always rectify that which is
amiss
in himself or his circumstances. Wollaston.
A-miss′
,Noun.
A fault, wrong, or mistake.
[Obs.]
Each toy seems prologue to some great
amiss
. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Amiss
AMISS'
,Adj.
1.
Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice. [This adjective always follows its noun.]2.
adv. In a faulty manner; contrary to propriety, truth, law or morality.Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. James 4.
Applied to the body, it signifies indisposed; as, I am somewhat amiss to day.
Definition 2025
amiss
amiss
English
Adjective
amiss (comparative more amiss, superlative most amiss)
- Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.
- He suspected something was amiss.
- Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff.
- Wollaston
- His wisdom and virtue cannot always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances.
Translations
wrong (postpositive)
wrong — see wrong
Adverb
amiss (comparative more amiss, superlative most amiss)
- (archaic) Mistakenly
- (archaic) Astray
- (archaic) Wrongly.
Noun
amiss (plural amisses)
- (obsolete) Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- Now by my head (said Guyon) much I muse, / How that same knight should do so foule amis [...].
- 1635, John Donne, "His parting from her":
- Yet Love, thou'rt blinder then thy self in this, / To vex my Dove-like friend for my amiss [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
External links
- amiss in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- amiss in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911