amiss

• POS: Adverb
• HYPHEN: a=miss

CIDE DICTIONARY

amiss, adv. [Pref. a- + miss.].

 Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.  [1913 Webster]
"What error drives our eyes and ears amiss?"  [1913 Webster]
"Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss."  [1913 Webster]

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, a. 

 Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.
"[Used only in the predicate.]"  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]
"His wisdom and virtue can not always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances."  [1913 Webster]

amiss, n. 

 A fault, wrong, or mistake.  [1913 Webster]
"Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

amiss, predic.adj. & adv.
--predic.adj. wrong; out of order; faulty (knew something was amiss).
--adv. wrong; wrongly; inappropriately (everything went amiss).

Idiom

take amiss be offended by (took my words amiss).

Etymology

ME prob. f. ON {agrave} mis so as to miss f. {agrave} on + mis rel. to MISS(1)

THESAURUS

amiss

aberrant, abroad, adrift, afield, all abroad, all off, all wrong, askew, astray, at fault, awry, bad, badly, below the mark, beside the mark, beside the point, blamable, blameful, bootlessly, bum, censurable, cockeyed, confused, convulsed, corrupt, crappy, culpable, deceptive, defective, delusive, deranged, deviant, deviational, deviative, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, dissatisfactory, distorted, disturbed, errant, erring, erroneous, erroneously, evil, evilly, fallacious, fallaciously, false, falsely, far from it, faultful, faultfully, faultily, faulty, flawed, fruitlessly, guilty, haywire, heretical, heterodox, ill, illogical, illusory, imperfect, imperfectly, improper, improperly, in disorder, in vain, inaccurately, inappropriately, incorrect, incorrectly, indiscreetly, inopportunely, misinterpret, misplaced, mistake, mistakenly, misunderstand, not right, not true, off, off the track, on the fritz, out, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, peccant, perturbed, perverse, perverted, poor, poorly, punk, reprehensible, roily, rotten, self-contradictory, shuffled, sick, sinful, straying, to no purpose, turbid, turbulent, unfactual, unfavorably, unholy, unorthodox, unpropitiously, unproved, unsatisfactory, unsettled, untoward, untrue, untruly, unwisely, up, upset, vainly, wide, wrong, wrongly