Definitions for amiss

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amiss a·miss

Spelling: [uh-mis]

IPA: /əˈmɪs/

Amiss is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in amiss (aimss).

Definitions for amiss

Idioms

1. take amiss, to be offended at or resentful of (something not meant to cause offense or resentment); misunderstand:

adverb

1. out of the right or proper course, order, or condition; improperly; wrongly; astray:

adjective

1. improper; wrong; faulty:

Origin of amiss

1200-50; Middle English amis, equivalent to a- a-¹ + mis wrong. See miss¹

Examples for amiss

"If they were walking over you, it mightn't be amiss," reprimanded Judith.

Mrs. Menotti tried to detain him; she could not understand what was amiss.

There seems to be a prevalent feeling that something is amiss at Apple.

It may not be amiss to remark that I have never eaten a blackberry since.

I thought it was not amiss to ask this liberty; the weather seemed to be set in fine.

He did not suspect anything was amiss until he returned home that evening and found them gone.

"I had not thought that you had taken it so amiss," said he awkwardly.

All of this happened in daylight, and controllers were aware that something was amiss.

From the start of the investigation, there were signs that something was amiss.

Brega offered no hint that anything was amiss, basically because Libyans were barred from living there.