amiss
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Is amiss a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (chiefly predicative) Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect.Examples: "He suspected something was amiss."; "Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff."; "His wisdom and virtue cannot always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances."Synonyms: awrypredicative
adv (English)
1. (archaic) Wrongly; mistakenlyExamples: "The fire seven times tried this: Seven times tried that judgement is, That did never choose amiss. Some there be that shadows kiss: Such have but a shadow's bliss. There be fools alive, I wis, Silver'd o'er; and so was this. I will ever be your head: So be gone: you are sped."; "We shall not do amiss to notice, also, that in ordinary conversation, a few words are used as Turkish singulars, which are, in reality, Arabic plurals; but this is not correct in writing."; "Then Hrefna said she would coif herself with it, and Thurid said she had better, and Hrefna did so. When Kalf saw that he gave her to understand that she had done amiss; and bade her take it off at her swiftest. "For that is the one thing that we, Kjartan and I, do not own in common.""archaicnot-comparable
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.Examples: "Now by my head (said Guyon) much I muse, / How that same knight should do so foule amis[…]."; "Yet Love, thou'rt blinder then thy self in this, / To vex my Dove-like friend for my amiss[…]."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary