amiss

== English == === Etymology === From a- +‎ miss. === Pronunciation === (UK, US) IPA(key): /əˈmɪs/ Rhymes: -ɪs === Adjective === amiss (comparative more amiss, superlative most amiss) (chiefly predicative) Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect. ==== Synonyms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Adverb === amiss (not comparable) (archaic) Wrongly; mistakenly 1899, The Laxdaela Saga (translated by Muriel A. C. Press) Chapter 44 Then Hrefna said she would coif herself with it, and Thurid said she had better, and Hrefna did so. When Kalf saw that he gave her to understand that she had done amiss; and bade her take it off at her swiftest. "For that is the one thing that we, Kjartan and I, do not own in common." Astray. Imperfectly. ==== Translations ==== === Noun === amiss (obsolete) Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed. ==== Further reading ==== “amiss”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “amiss”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === Masis, Massi, Samis, Simas, Sisam, missa, saims, simas