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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. His wisdom and virtue can not always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances. --Wollaston. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Amiss \A*miss"\, n. A fault, wrong or mistake. [Obs.] Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Amiss \A*miss"\, adv [Pref. a- + miss.] Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill. What error drives our eyes and ears amiss? --Shak. Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss. --James iv 3. {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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: amiss adj : not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "the telephone is out of order"; "what's the matter with your vacuum cleaner?"; "something is wrong with the engine" [syn: {amiss(p)}, {awry(p)}, {haywire}, {out of order(p)}, {the matter(p)}, {wrong(p)}] 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}] 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}] [ant: {perfectly}]
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