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1. amiss

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Usually means: Out of proper or expected order.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word amiss:

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  1. amiss: Merriam-Webster
  2. amiss: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. amiss: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. amiss: Collins English Dictionary
  5. amiss: Vocabulary.com
  6. Amis's, Amiss, amiss: Wordnik
  7. amiss: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. amiss: Wiktionary
  9. amiss: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. amiss: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. amiss: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Amiss, amiss: Dictionary.com
  13. amiss: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. amiss: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Amiss: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. amiss: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. amiss: Rhymezone
  18. amiss: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. amiss: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. amiss: FreeDictionary.org
  21. amiss: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. amiss: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. amiss: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. amiss: Merriam-Webster

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  1. amiss: Legal dictionary

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  1. amiss: Encyclopedia

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  1. amiss: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  (chiefly predicative) Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect.
▸ adverb:  (archaic) Wrongly; mistakenly
▸ adverb:  Astray.
▸ adverb:  Imperfectly.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.

Similar:
malfunctioning, wrong, imperfectly, awry, nonfunctional, haywire, out of order, the matter, unproper, impropre, more...

Opposite:
correct, right, proper, appropriate

Types:
out of order, out of sorts, out of joint, out of kilter, out of whack, more...

Phrases:
be amiss, take amiss, go amiss, take something amiss, takes amiss, more...

Adjectives:
much, little, great, serious, sore, come, drunk, fancy, longer, mickle, foul

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Similar:
malfunctioning, wrong, imperfectly, awry, nonfunctional, haywire, out of order, the matter, unproper, impropre, more...

Opposite:
correct, right, proper, appropriate

Types:
out of order, out of sorts, out of joint, out of kilter, out of whack, more...

Phrases:
be amiss, take amiss, go amiss, take something amiss, takes amiss, taking amiss, thing) amiss to take (an act, to take (an act, thing) amiss, to take amiss, took amiss, would not come amiss, would not go amiss, more...

Adjectives:
much, little, great, serious, sore, come, drunk, fancy, longer, mickle, foul

Colors:
    gray,     overcast,     sallow, more...



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