Be Amiss

Definition: Be Amiss

Be Amiss

Verb

1. Interpret in the wrong way; "Don't misinterpret my comments as criticism"; "She misconstrued my remarks".

Synonyms: Be Amiss

Synonyms: misapprehend (v), misconceive (v), misconstrue (v), misinterpret (v), misunderstand (v). (additional references)

Crosswords: Be Amiss

English words defined with "be amiss": Misween. (references)

Etymologies containing "be amiss": Misween. (references)

Author	Quotation
Edmund Burke	Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-m-s-s"
	-1 letter: biases.
	-2 letters: amies, amiss, bases, basis, bassi, beams, bemas, bimas, bises, iambs, isbas, mabes, masse, mesas, mises, sabes, seams, seism, semis, simas.
	-3 letters: aims, amie, amis, bams, base, bass, beam, bema, bias, bima, bise, iamb, isba, isms, mabe, maes, mass, mesa, mess, mibs, mise, miss, sabe, sabs, same, seam, seas, seis, semi, sibs, sima, sims.
	-4 letters: abs, aim, ais, ami, ass, bam, bas, bis, ems, ess, ism, mae, mas, mib, mis, sab, sae, sea, sei, sib, sim, sis.
	-5 letters: ab, ae, ai, am, as, ba, be, bi, em, es, is, ma, me, mi, si.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-m-s-s"
	+1 letter: iambuses, missable.
	+2 letters: amebiases, amebiasis, balminess, biomasses, embassies, memsahibs, misbiased, misbiases, mislabels, obeahisms.
	+3 letters: abstemious, admissible, amoebiases, amoebiasis, assemblies, assembling, disembarks, frambesias, framboises, impassable, impassible, lesbianism, marbleises, misbehaves, misbiassed, misbiasses, miserables, rebaptisms, sawtimbers, slimeballs, sublimates, submarines, verbalisms.
	+4 letters: absenteeism, ambergrises, ambisexuals, amiableness, assimilable, balminesses, banishments, bipedalisms, blasphemies, bridesmaids, businessman, disassemble, disassembly, disbarments, lesbianisms, liberalisms, metabolisms, misassemble, misbalances, misbehavers, seaborgiums, subclimaxes, subfamilies, submariners, submediants, subprimates.
	+5 letters: abolishments, absenteeisms, abstemiously, ambitionless, ambiversions, amicableness, amphisbaenas, assemblagist, behaviorisms, bimetallisms, bimetallists, bohemianisms, disablements, disassembled, disassembles, disbandments, disembarrass, embarrassing, inadmissible, misassembled, misassembles, misbehaviors, plebeianisms, reassemblies, reassembling, sabermetrics, semiabstract, stablishment, strabismuses.
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