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1. (adv.) amiss
out of the right or proper course, order, or condition; wrongly:
to speak amiss.
2. (adj.) amiss
improper; wrong; faulty.
3. amiss
take amiss, to be mistakenly offended at or resentful of; misunderstand.
Etymology: (1200–50; ME amis=a-a -1+mis wrong. See miss1)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adverb) amiss(p), awry(p), haywire, wrong(p)
not functioning properly
"something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine"
2. (adverb) awry, amiss
away from the correct or expected course
"something has gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss in the preparations"
3. (adverb) amiss
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"
4. (adverb) imperfectly, amiss
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
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) amiss
wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice
2. (adverb) amiss
astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill
3. (noun) amiss
a fault, wrong, or mistake
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Sense: wrong
Their plans went amiss.
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 Afrikaans: skeefloop |
 Arabic: بِطَريقَة خاطِئَه |
 Bulgarian: грешен |
 Brazilian: errado |
 Czech: špatný |
 German: verkehrt |
 Danish: gal; forkert |
 Greek: λάθος, στραβά |
 Spanish: mal, torcido |
 Estonian: nurja |
 Farsi: اشتباه |
 Finnish: viallinen |
 French: de travers |
 Hebrew: לֹא בְּסֶדֶר |
 Hindi: गलत |
 Croatian: naopako |
 Hungarian: rosszul |
 Indonesian: meleset, keliru, salah |
 Icelandic: úr lagi |
 Italian: storto, di traverso |
 Japanese: 誤って |
 Korean: 잘못하여 |
 Lithuanian: nesėkmingas, blogas |
 Latvian: nepareizs; kļūdains |
 Malay: salah |
 Dutch: verkeerd |
 Norwegian: galt, feilslått |
 Polish: źle, na opak |
 Persian: اشتباه |
 Pashto: سهوه، اشتباه |
 Portuguese: errado |
 Romanian: greşit, rău |
 Russian: ошибочный |
 Slovak: zlý |
 Slovenian: narobe |
 Serbian: promašen |
 Swedish: på tok, fel |
 Thai: ไม่ถูกต้อง |
 Turkish: yanlış, hatalı |
 Taiwanese: 出錯的 |
 Ukrainian: неправильний, невірний |
 Urdu: غلط ، بے تکا |
 Vietnamese: hỏng |
 Chinese: 有差错的 |
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