'amiss' definitions:
Definition of 'amiss'
From: WordNet
adverb
Away from the correct or expected course; "something has gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss in the preparations" [syn: awry, amiss]
adverb
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"
adverb
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, amiss] [ant: perfectly]
adjective
Not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine" [syn: amiss(p), awry(p), haywire, wrong(p)]
Synonyms of 'amiss'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- afield,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- awry,
- bad,
- badly,
- below the mark,
- beside the mark,
- beside the point,
- blamable,
- blameful,
- bootlessly,
- bum,
- censurable,
- cockeyed,
- confused,
- convulsed,
- corrupt,
- crappy,
- culpable,
- deceptive,
- defective,
- delusive,
- deranged,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- disarranged,
- discomfited,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dislocated,
- disordered,
- disorderly,
- disorganized,
- dissatisfactory,
- distorted,
- disturbed,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- erroneously,
- evil,
- evilly,
- fallacious,
- fallaciously,
- false,
- falsely,
- far from it,
- faultful,
- faultfully,
- faultily,
- faulty,
- flawed,
- fruitlessly,
- guilty,
- haywire,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- ill,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- imperfect,
- imperfectly,
- improper,
- improperly,
- in disorder,
- in vain,
- inaccurately,
- inappropriately,
- incorrect,
- incorrectly,
- indiscreetly,
- inopportunely,
- misinterpret,
- misplaced,
- mistake,
- mistakenly,
- misunderstand,
- not right,
- not true,
- off,
- off the track,
- on the fritz,
- out,
- out of gear,
- out of joint,
- out of kelter,
- out of kilter,
- out of order,
- out of place,
- out of tune,
- out of whack,
- peccant,
- perturbed,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- poor,
- poorly,
- punk,
- reprehensible,
- roily,
- rotten,
- self-contradictory,
- shuffled,
- sick,
- sinful,
- straying,
- to no purpose,
- turbid,
- turbulent,
- unfactual,
- unfavorably,
- unholy,
- unorthodox,
- unpropitiously,
- unproved,
- unsatisfactory,
- unsettled,
- untoward,
- untrue,
- untruly,
- unwisely,
- up,
- upset,
- vainly,
- wide,
- wrong,
- wrongly