Definition of amiss

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Amiss (a.) Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice..

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Agrief :: Agrief (adv.) In grief; amiss.
Misemploy :: Misemploy (v. t.) To employ amiss; as, to misemploy time, advantages, talents, etc..
Amission :: Amission (n.) Deprivation; loss.
Miscreate :: Miscreate (v. t.) To create badly or amiss.
Mis- :: Mis- () A prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, miscreant..
Amissible :: Amissible (a.) Liable to be lost.
Amiss :: Amiss (a.) Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice..
Miskindle :: Miskindle (v. t.) To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.
Amiss :: Amiss (n.) A fault, wrong, or mistake..
Mislodge :: Mislodge (v. t.) To lodge amiss.
Missend :: Missend (v. t.) To send amiss or incorrectly.
A- :: A- () A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofd/ne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English
Miscreative :: Miscreative (a.) Creating amiss.
Mistrain :: Mistrain (v. t.) To train amiss.
Misturn :: Misturn (v. t.) To turn amiss; to pervert.
Mispersuade :: Mispersuade (v. t.) To persuade amiss.
Misgive :: Misgive (v. t.) To give or grant amiss.
Mistake :: Mistake (v. t.) To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.
Miscopy :: Miscopy (v. t.) To copy amiss.
Misintend :: Misintend (v. t.) To aim amiss.
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