AMISS


Meaning of AMISS in English

predic.adj. & adv.

predic.adj. wrong; out of order; faulty (knew something was amiss).

adv. wrong; wrongly; inappropriately (everything went amiss). take amiss be offended by (took my words amiss).

[ ME prob. f. ON à mis so as to miss f. à on + mis rel. to MISS(1) ]

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