Crossword clues for amiss
amiss
- In an incorrect manner
- Out of sorts
- In error
- Off kilter
- Off base
- Off target
- Somewhat off
- Out of proper order
- Slightly off
- Off the track
- It's as good as a mile
- A bit off
- Not as it should be
- Off somehow
- Not functioning properly
- Equal of a mile
- "Swing and ___!" (strike)
- "Swing and ___, strike one!"
- Somewhat wrong
- Slightly odd
- Quid pro quo for a mile
- Out of joint
- Not in order
- More than fishy
- It's supposed to equal a mile
- Gone wrong
- Equal to a mile
- Beside the mark
- A little fishy
- "Swing and ___, strike one": 2 wds
- "___ is as good as a mile": 2 wds
- "___ is as good . . . "
- ____ is as good as a mile
- Wrong
- Faulty
- Out of place
- Awry or fishy
- Not right
- Screwed up
- Off the mark
- Wacky
- Out of whack
- Cockeyed
- Not quite right
- Equivalent of 33-Down?
- Out of order
- Wrongly
- Out of kilter
- Khomeini, for one
- A little off
- Improper
- Astray
- Snafu
- Faultily
- Not proper
- Improperly
- Off-target
- Imperfectly
- Off-course
- Haywire
- Martin perhaps sighted at the entrance? It's wrong
- A girl is wrong
- Wrong, a girl
- Wrong a lady
- Kingsley & Son put together wrongly
- An unmarried female, not suitable
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Amiss \A*miss"\, n. A fault, wrong, or mistake. [Obs.]
Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss.
--Shak.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice. adv. 1 (context archaic English) mistakenly 2 (context archaic English) astray 3 (context archaic English) wrongly. n. (context obsolete English) fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.
WordNet
adj. not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine" [syn: amiss(p), awry(p), haywire, wrong(p)]
adv. away from the correct or expected course; "something has gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss in the preparations" [syn: awry]
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"
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]
Usage examples of "amiss".
Even at the distance of a bow shot Seregil could see something amiss in the lines of the figure, some profound wrongness of proportion that disturbed him more than the fact that Alec obviously could not see it himself.
And it was only after all this that Gaar and Arem noticed something was amiss.
Stormed by an attack of his cacoethes scribendi, after those few blank days at Becket, Felix saw nothing amiss with his young daughter.
Every day for a week something was amiss, and, having gone to the length of his own tether, Devers took to saying that it was all Mr.
The wound was nearly healed, but another application of his germander poultice would not be amiss.
The same day I called on Princess Lubomirska and Tomatis, begging them not to take it amiss if my visits were few and far between, as the lady they had seen at Spa was approaching her confinement, and demanded all my care.
No labor came amiss to Cyrus Harding, who thus set an example to his intelligent and zealous companions.
If yo have, remember this, Be a true man to her, An whativver gooas amiss, Keep noa secrets throo her.
Nell hardly noticed this incongruity because the corgis heard Rita turning the latch on the glass doors and rushed toward them yapping, and this drew out the Constable himself, who approached them squinting through the dark glass, and once he was out from behind the rhodies, Nell could see that there was something amiss with the flesh of his body.
Grimsley, who was west of Samawah and out of radio contact with Rutter, knew something was amiss when he checked Blue Force Tracker: there were blue icons in the heart of Samawah.
Shelmerston, could not only recognize the ship but also see the great silver-gilt candlestick taken from a pirate in the Great South Sea and now hoisted to her main topgallant masthead: what was amiss?
Edgar arrived, Sir Hugh told him of the affair, assuring him he should never have taken amiss his preferring Camilla, which he thought but natural, if he had only done it from the first.
Miss Penistone knew then what was amiss: she had had one of her bad nights, poor Elizabeth!
Only Stund remained gazing towards the altar, eyes blinking rapidly, as if unaware of anything amiss.
That was fine with Jimmy, because a bit of synesthesia never went amiss.