Amiss

Definitions: Amiss

Amiss

Adjective

1. 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".

Adverb

1. Away from the correct or expected course; "something has gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss in the preparations".

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.

Date "amiss" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonyms: Amiss

Synonyms: amiss(p) (adj), awry(p) (adj), haywire (adj), out of order(p) (adj), the matter(p) (adj), wrong(p) (adj), awry (adv), imperfectly (adv). (additional references)

Antonym: perfectly (adv). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Beauty	Fit to be seen, passable, not amiss.
Content	Phrase: nothing comes amiss.
Disagreement	Verb: disagree; clash, jar; (discord); interfere, intrude, come amiss; not concern; mismatch; humano capiti cervicem jungere equinam.
Discord	Verb: be discordant; Adjective: disagree, come amiss; clash, jar, jostle, pull different ways, conflict, have no measures with, misunderstand one another; live like cat and dog; differ; dissent; have a bone to pick, have a crow to pluck with.
Dislike	Loathe, nauseate, abominate, detest, abhor; hate; take amiss; have enough of; (be satiated).
Failure	Go amiss, go wrong, go cross, go hard with, go on a wrong tack; go on ill, come off ill, turn out ill, work ill; take a wrong term, take an ugly term; take an ugly turn, take a turn for the worse.
Imperfection	Indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre; average; so-so; coucicouci, milk and water; tolerable, fair, passable; pretty well, pretty good; rather good, moderately good; good; good enough, well enough, adequate; decent; not bad, not amiss; inobjectionable, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing.
Inexpedience	Verb: be inexpedient; Adjective:; come amiss; (disagree); embarrass; (hinder); put to inconvenience; pay too dear for one's whistle.
Insensibility	Phrase: never mind; macht nichts, it is of no consequence; (unimportant); it cannot be helped; nothing coming amiss; it is all the same to, it is all one to.
Resentment	Verb: resent; take amiss, take ill, take to heart, take offense, take umbrage, take huff, take exception; take in ill part, take in bad part, take in dudgeon; ne pas entendre raillerie; breathe revenge, cut up rough.
Untimeliness	Verb: be ill timed; Adjective: mistime, intrude, come amiss, break in upon; have other fish to fry; be busy, be occupied.
Vice	Verb: be vicious; Adjective: sin, commit sin, do amiss, err, transgress; misdemean oneself, forget oneself, misconduct oneself; misdo, misbehave; fall, lapse, slip, trip, offend, trespass; deviate from the line of duty, deviate from the path of virtue; take a wrong course, go astray; hug a sin, hug a fault; sow one's wild oats.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Amiss

English words defined with "amiss": A-, Agrief, awry ♦ be amiss ♦ imperfectly ♦ Mis-, Misconsecrate, Miscopy, Miscreate, Miscreative, Misemploy, Misinstruct, Misintend, Miskindle, Mislive, Mislodge, Mispersuade, Mispraise, Missend, Mistrain, Misturn, Mistutor, Misween ♦ Para-. (references)

Specialty definitions using "amiss": Screw Loose. (references)

Etymologies containing "amiss": Misween. (references)

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	There is something amiss (Hook; performing artist: Blues Traveler)
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Domain	Title
Books	Matricide at St. Martha's: A Robert Amiss Mystery [UNABRIDGED] (reference) Something Amiss (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Alexander Pope	Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
Edmund Burke	Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	Though I have had occasion to speak of these separately before, yet the great mistakes of late about government, having, as I suppose, arisen from confounding these distinct powers one with another, it may not, perhaps, be amiss to consider them here together. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	Your friend will not take it amiss I hope.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	No tool comes amiss to this workman.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Amiss" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 55.69% of the time. "Amiss" is used about 482 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	55.69%	269	17,948
Adverb (general)	28.99%	140	26,789
Adjective (general or positive)	15.32%	74	38,813
Total	100.00%	482	N/A

Expressions using "amiss": act amiss ♦ be amiss ♦ come amiss ♦ come amiss to smb. ♦ do amiss ♦ go amiss ♦ not amiss ♦ nothing comes amiss ♦ play amiss ♦ something is amiss ♦ speak amiss of ♦ take amiss ♦ take smth. amiss ♦ there is nothing amiss ♦ there is smth. amiss ♦ To take an act thing amiss. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "amiss"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Pa Vend (malapropos, mistakenly, out of turn), I Pavend (improper, inappropriate, indiscreet, inept, inopportune, irrelevant, off-key, preposterous, unbecoming, uncalled for, unfortunate, unjust, unplaced), I Gabuar (erroneous, fallacious, false, faulty, ill-judged, improper, incorrect, mistaken, peccant, perverse, untrue, wet, wrong, wrongful). (various references)

Arabic		‏ناقص (bid, defective, deficient, deprecatory, faulty, imperfect, inchoate, incomplete, incorrect, insufficient, minus, nude, odd, reducible, revoked, scant, sketchy, truncate, unfinished, wanting), ‏لا تسئ مقصدي, ‏لا تشعر بالأذى, ‏خاطئ (erring, erroneous, false, faulty, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, mistaken, wrong), ‏بطريقة خاطئة. (various references)

Bulgarian		Погрешно, Криво, Невярно, Неправилно, Не Както Трябва, Не �' � ед. (various references)

Chinese		不是味�' (a bit off, be upset, feel bad, fishy, not quite right, not the right flavor, queer), 不對 (abnormal, incorrect, queer, wrong). (various references)

Czech		Ve Zlém, Nevhod (inconveniently), Chybnì (erroneously, inaccurately), � patnì. (various references)

Farsi		منحط (Decadent, Degenerate), منحرف (Aberrant, Astray, Awry, Deviant, Devious, Hellbent, Lost, Oblique, Perverse, Pervert, Skew), نادرست (Dishonest, Erroneous, False, Foul, Imprecise, Impure, Inaccurate, Incorrect, Inexact, Jackleg, Sinister, Spurious, Unfair, Unsound, Untrue, Vicious), کثیف (Dirty, Draggy, Grimy, Impure, Lousy, Messy, Mussy, Nasty, Sloppy, Sordid, Squawk), گمراه (Aberrant, Astray, Devious, Heterodox, Perverse), غلط (Awry, Erroneous, Error, False, Foul, Inaccuracy, Inaccurate, Incorrect, Phony, Unsound), بیمورد (Anomalous, Inappropriate), بد (Bad, Dreadful, Evil, Ill, Junky, Rum, Unfavorable). (various references)

Finnish		väärin (erroneously, incorrectly, mis, negative, the wrong way, wrong, wrongly), hullusti (the wrong way, wrong). (various references)

French		Mal À Propos, Mal, De Travers. (various references)

German		schlecht (bad, bad (worse, badly, chronic, corrupt, decayed, evil, faulty, foul, hard, ill, inferior, lamentable, lamentably, low, maladjusted, miserable, nasty, off, poor, poorly, sick, stale, terribly, uneasy, unhealthy, unkind, unpalatable, unsatisfactory, unsavory, unsavoury, unsuitably, wicked, wrong), verkehrt (consorts, contrary, incorrect, inverse, inversely, inverted, opposite, perverse, perversely, topsy turvy, upside down, wrong, wrongly), fehlend (absent, being absent, missing, nonexisting, omitted, unavailable, wanting). (various references)

Greek		Εσφαλμένα, Στραβά, Απρεπώσ. (various references)

Hebrew		ּא ֻשור�". (various references)

Hungarian		Rosszul (badly, crookedly, evil, evilly, ill, Illy, in a bad way, nohow, poorly, raunchy, scalawag, scruffy, to misdirect, to misuse sg, wrong), Rosszkor (at an awkward moment, babbler, untimely), Ballépés (flub-up, trip). (various references)

Indonesian		ketidakberesan. (various references)

Italian		Sbagliato (erroneous, false, mistaken, wrong), Male (ache, bad, badly, disease, evil, harm, hurt, ill, illness, Malé, misfortune, not well, pain, poorly, sickness, trouble, wrong, wrongly), Inopportuno (awkward, ill timed, ill-judged, impolitic, inopportune, unsuitable, untimely, wrong), Fuori Luogo (inapposite, untimely), Di Traverso (askance, askew, athwart, athwartships, awry, edgeways). (various references)

Manx		tramman (elder, entangled, foul, foul as rope, tangled), neuchiart (incorrect, inexact, not level, partial). (various references)

Pig Latin		amissay

Portuguese		Impróprio (discreditable, faked, ill, ill treat, improper, inadequate, inappropriate, inapt, incapacious, incongruous, inconvenient, naughty, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, unbeseeming, uncomely, undignified, unfit, unmeet, unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited, unworthy, useless), Fora De Propósito (ill treat, inapposite, inaptitude, inexpedient, uncalled for), Erroneamente (abroad, wrong), Errado (awry, incorrect, wrong), Deslocado (disjunct, ill treat, ill-placed, inappropriate, incongruous, offset, strained, timeless, unbeseeming, uncalled for, unmeet, unsuitable), Defeituoso (defective, deficient, dissatisfied, faulty, imperfection, unsatisfactory, unsound), Defeituosamente. (various references)

Romanian		Rãu (atrocious, awkward, awry, bad, bad for, bad-hearted, badly, baleful, black, bum, corrupt, depraved, evil, flagitious, foul, haggish, harm, ill, immoral, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign, mischief, mischievous, miserable, naughty, perverse, rough, scoundrel, sickness, thin, unspeakable, useless, venomous, vicious, vile, wicked, wretched, wrong), Nu Se ştie Unde, Nelalocul Lui (incongruous, infelicitous, malapropos, out of place), Greşit (abroad, astray, awry, bad, badly, erroneous, erroneously, fallacious, false, faultily, faulty, incorrect, misled, mistaken, out of square, perverse, spurious, unfair, unjust, unlawful, vicious, wrong, wrongheaded). (various references)

Russian		Ошибочно, Плохой, Несвоевременный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		u nevreme (mistimed), pogrešno (erroneously, mis-, mistakenly, wrong, wrongly), nezgodno, loše (bad, badly, poorly, refuse). (various references)

Spanish		Errado (aberrant, erroneous, lost, mistaken, unwise, wide of the mark, wrong). (various references)

Swedish		På Tok, Fel (aberration, blemish, breakdown, corrigendum, defect, deficiency, demerit, error, errors, failing, failure, fault, flaw, foul, imperfection, inaccuracy, lapse, mistake, nonconformity, out, shortcoming, trouble, vice, wrong). (various references)

Turkish		Yersiz (baseless, beside the point, digressive, discursive, idle, ill timed, impertinent, improper, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incongruous, indecent, indiscreet, inept, inexpedient, infelicitous, injudicious, inopportune, irrelevant, malapropos, out of place, out of turn, uncalled for, uncomely, undue, unhappy, unjustifiable, unseasonable, untimely, untoward, unwarranted), Yanlış (corrigendum, errant, erroneous, error, fallacy, false, fault, improper, inaccuracy, inaccurate, inadvisable, incorrect, inexact, lapse, mis-, miscue, mistake, mistaken, untrue, wrong, wrongly, wry), Ters (acrimonious, adverse, agley, awkward, awry, backward, backwards, bad tempered, bloody minded, churlish, contradictory, contrary, converse, counter, crabbed, cranky, curt, cussed, dour, face down, fractious, fretful, Froward, frowning, grumpy, ill natured, illegitimate, indecorous, inimical, inverse, inversely, inverted, mis-, negative, off, opposing, opposite, perverse, retro-, reverse, snuffy, sub-, unfavorable, unfavourable, upside down, versed, wayward, wrong, wrongly), Hatalı (delinquent, errant, erring, erroneous, false, faulty, illegitimate, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, mistaken, out, solecistic, unsound, wet, wrong). (various references)

Ukranian		Погано, Поганий, Помилково, Несво�"часний, Невірно, Невірний, Невчасно, Невчасний, Неправильно, Неправильний, Недоречно. (various references)

Welsh		ar fai, o'i le. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Date	Source	Luke Chapter 23, Verse 41
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai hmeiV men dikaiwV axia gar wn epraxamen apolambanomen outoV de ouden atopon epraxen
Latin	405	Vulgate	Et nos quidem iuste nam digna factis recipimus hic vero nihil mali gessit
Old English	990	West Saxon	And wyt witodlice be uncer ærdædum onfoð; Soðlice þes naht yfeles ne dyde
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And treuli we iustli, for we han resseiued worthi thingis to werkis; but this dide no thing of yuel.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	We are ryghteously punesshed for we receave accordynge to oure dedes: But this man hath done nothinge amysse.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And with reason; for we have the right reward of our acts, but this man has done nothing wrong.
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Language	Luke Chapter 23, Verse 41
Cebuano	Ug kita sa pagkatinuod ania ubas sa matarung nga hukom, kay kita nagadawat man sa angayng balus sa atong binuhatan; apan kining tawhana walay nabuhat nga dautan."
Croatian	Ali mi po pravdi jer primamo što smo djelima zaslužili, a on - on ništa opako ne uèini."
Danish	Og vi ere det med Rette; thi vi få igen, hvad vore Gerninger have forskyldt; men denne gjorde intet uskikkeligt."
Dutch	En wij toch rechtvaardiglijk; want wij ontvangen straf, waardig hetgeen wij gedaan hebben; maar Deze heeft niets onbehoorlijks gedaan.
Finnish	Me tosin kärsimme oikeuden mukaan, sillä me saamme, mitä meidän tekomme ansaitsevat; mutta tämä ei ole mitään pahaa tehnyt."
French	Pour nous, c`est justice, car nous recevons ce qu`ont mérité nos crimes; mais celui-ci n`a rien fait de mal.
German	Und wir zwar sind billig darin, denn wir empfangen, was unsere Taten wert sind; dieser aber hat nichts Ungeschicktes getan.
Haitian Creole	Pou nou menm se jistis, paske nou resevwa sa nou merite pou krim nou fè. Men li menm, li pa fè anyen.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Hanya hukuman kita berdua memang setimpal dengan perbuatan kita. Tetapi Dia sama sekali tidak bersalah!"
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Kita memang dengan sepatutnya, karena kita menerima balasan yang berpadan dengan perbuatan kita; tetapi orang ini suatu pun tiada perbuatan-Nya yang salah."
Italian	Noi giustamente, perché riceviamo il giusto per le nostre azioni, egli invece non ha fatto nulla di male».
Maori	Ka tika raia to taua; ka whiwhi hoki taua ki nga mea e tika ana mo a taua hanga: ko tenei ia kahore ana mahi he.
Norwegian	Og vi med rette; for vi får igjen hvad våre gjerninger har forskyldt; men denne har ikke gjort noget galt.
Rumanian	Pentru noi este drept, cqci primim rqsplata cuvenitq pentru fqrqdelegile noastre; dar omul acesta n`a fqcut nici un rqu.``
Shuar	Iikia yajauch asar Wáitsatniuitji; ii tunaari akikmakur Wáitiaji. Antsu ju aishmanka yajauchin Túrichuiti" Tímiayi.
Swahili	Wewe na mimi tunastahili, maana haya ni malipo ya yale tuliyotenda. Lakini mtu huyu hakufanya chochote kibaya."
Swedish	Oss vederfares detta med all rätt, ty vi lida vad våra gärningar äro värda, men denne man har intet ont gjort."
Uma	Aga huku' -ta kita' rodua, toto-na-tana ntuku' kadada'a gau' -ta. Hiaa' Hi'a-hana, uma ria sala' -na."
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Misspellings
	"Amiss" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abiss, admiss, afis, ahis, aissf, Aliss, amas, amasa, amask, amast, amessy, amias, amic, amids, amies, amins, amirs, amis, amise, Amises, amissae, amist, ammish, amosa, Amosis, Ampsys, amus, amuss, amys, amyses, anec, Aniss, anissa, Ariss, axises, Ayissah, Ayissi, azis, Bamissi, emass, emics, emiss, iamids, imass, Imis, Imisp, jameses, mais, maists. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "amiss" (pronounced umi"s)
3	-m i" s	dismiss, mis, Miss, remiss.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: simas.
	Words within the letters "a-i-m-s-s"
	-1 letter: aims, amis, isms, mass, miss, sima, sims.
	-2 letters: aim, ais, ami, ass, ism, mas, mis, sim, sis.
	-3 letters: ai, am, as, is, ma, mi, si.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-m-s-s"
	+1 letter: agisms, maists, massif, miasms, missal, missay, myasis, passim, sadism, salmis, sigmas, simars, swamis.
	+2 letters: ageisms, ahimsas, aimless, amusias, autisms, biomass, camisas, camises, chiasms, disarms, dismals, dismast, dismays, fascism, favisms, hassium, impasse, inseams, jasmins, kamsins, kismats, mashies, masjids, massier, massifs, massing, massive, mastics, mavises, messiah, miasmas, mimosas, misacts, misadds, misaims, misbias, miscast, misease, miseats, mishaps, miskals, mislays, missaid, missals, missays, misseat, mosaics, myiases, myiasis, nanisms, racisms, sadisms, saimins, salamis, samiels, samisen, samites, santims, sashimi, seismal, shamois, siamese, simians, stasima, statism, stigmas, swamies, tamises, tsarism.
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