Amiss
Amiss ({not transcribed}) , adverb
[Prefix a- + miss.]
Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.
What error drives our eyes and ears amiss?
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss.
Collocations (1)
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.
Amiss (ȧ*mis") , adjective
[Used only in the predicate.]
Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice. — Dryden
His wisdom and virtue can not always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances.
Amiss , noun
A fault, wrong, or mistake. [Obsolete]
Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss.