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amiss

adj
/əˈmɪs/UK

Etymology

From a- + miss.

  1. inherited from *miss-✻ — “loss”
  2. derived from *miss✻
  3. inherited from miss — “loss, absence”
  4. inherited from misse
  5. inherited from *meyth₂-✻ — “to change, exchange, trade”
  6. inherited from *missijaną✻ — “to miss, go wrong, fail”
  7. inherited from *missijan✻
  8. inherited from missan — “to miss, escape the notice of a person”
  9. inherited from missen
  10. prefixed as amiss — “a + miss”

Definitions

  1. Wrong

    Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect.

    • He suspected something was amiss.
    • Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff.
    • His wisdom and virtue cannot always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances.

  2. Wrongly

    Wrongly; mistakenly

    • 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.

  3. Astray.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Imperfectly.

    2. Fault

      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[…].

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for amiss. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA