Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Amiss"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Amiss \A*miss"\ ([.a]*m[i^]s"), a.
Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be
amiss to ask advice.
Note: [Used only in the predicate.] --Dryden.
His wisdom and virtue can not always rectify that
which is amiss in himself or his circumstances.
--Wollaston.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Amiss \A*miss"\, n.
A fault, wrong, or mistake. [Obs.]
Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Amiss \A*miss"\, adv. [Pref. a- + miss.]
Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.
What error drives our eyes and ears amiss? --Shak.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
amiss
adj : not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone
completely haywire"; "the telephone is out of order";
"what's the matter with your vacuum cleaner?";
"something is wrong with the engine" [syn: {amiss(p)},
{awry(p)}, {haywire}, {out of order(p)}, {the matter(p)},
{wrong(p)}]
adv 1: away from the correct or expected course; "something has
gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss
in the preparations" [syn: {awry}]
2: in 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"
3: in an imperfect or faulty way; "The lobe was imperfectly
developed"; "Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if
she practiced more"- Jane Austen [syn: {imperfectly}]
[ant: {perfectly}]
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