Amiss

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /əˈmɪs/

• Rhymes: -ɪs

Origin

From a + miss.

Full definition of amiss

Adjective

1. 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.
• WollastonHis wisdom and virtue cannot always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances.

Adverb

1. (archaic) Mistakenly
2. (archaic) Astray
3. (archaic) Wrongly.

Noun

1. (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 ....

Anagrams

• missa
• saims
• Samis