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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. not functioning properly;
- Example: "something is amiss"
- Example: "has gone completely haywire"
- Example: "something is wrong with the engine"
[syn: amiss(p), awry(p), haywire, wrong(p)]


ADVERB (3)

1. away from the correct or expected course;
- Example: "something has gone awry in our plans"
- Example: "something went badly amiss in the preparations"
[syn: awry, amiss]

2. in an improper or mistaken or unfortunate manner;
- Example: "if you think him guilty you judge amiss"
- Example: "he spoke amiss"
- Example: "no one took it amiss when she spoke frankly"

3. in an imperfect or faulty way;
- Example: "The lobe was imperfectly developed"
- Example: "Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practiced more"- Jane Austen
[syn: imperfectly, amiss]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Amiss \A*miss"\, n.
   A fault, wrong, or mistake. [Obs.]
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         Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Amiss \A*miss"\, adv. [Pref. a- + miss.]
   Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.
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         What error drives our eyes and ears amiss? --Shak.
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         Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. --James
                                                  iv. 3.
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   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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Amiss \A*miss"\ ([.a]*m[i^]s"), a.
   Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be
   amiss to ask advice.

   Note: [Used only in the predicate.] --Dryden.
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               His wisdom and virtue can not always rectify that
               which is amiss in himself or his circumstances.
                                                  --Wollaston.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

amiss
    adv 1: away from the correct or expected course; "something has
           gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss in
           the preparations" [syn: awry, amiss]
    2: 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"
    3: 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 [syn: imperfectly, amiss]
       [ant: perfectly]
    adj 1: not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone
           completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine"
           [syn: amiss(p), awry(p), haywire, wrong(p)]