Definition of amiss

"amiss" in the adjective sense

1. amiss, awry, haywire, wrong

not functioning properly

"something is amiss"

"has gone completely haywire"

"something is wrong with the engine"

"amiss" in the adverb sense

1. awry, amiss

away from the correct or expected course

"something has gone awry in our plans"

"something went badly amiss in the preparations"

2. amiss

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"

3. imperfectly, amiss

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

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Quotations for amiss

Good counsel never comes amiss. [ Proverb ]

Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man. [ Proverb ]

He that thinks amiss concludes worse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone. [ Cervantes ]

The few that pray at all pray oft amiss. [ Cowper ]

All foreign wisdom doth amount to this,
To take all that is given, whether wealth,
Or love, or language; nothing comes amiss;
A good digestion turneth all to health. [ Herbert ]

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss. [ Pope ]

Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. [ William Shakespeare, The Taming Of The Shrew ]

When a man is not liked, whatever he does is amiss. [ Proverb ]

Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is easier to bear with what is amiss, than go about to reform it. [ Proverb ]

'T is the good reader that makes the good book: a good head cannot read amiss. [ Emerson ]

They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm: they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination. [ La Bruyere ]

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and seasonably applied; but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. [ Cervantes ]

'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences, or asides, hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Give him gold enough, and marry him to a puppet, or an aglet-baby; or an old trot with never a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two and fifty horses; why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. [ William Shakespeare ]

If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. [ Sir John Herschel ]

amiss in Scrabble®

The word amiss is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters amiss:

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amiss in Words With Friends™

The word amiss is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Words containing the sequence amiss

Words that start with amiss (1 word)

Words with amiss in them (3 words)

Words that end with amiss (1 word)

Word Growth involving amiss

Shorter words in amiss

am

is miss

mi miss

Longer words containing amiss

extramission

extramissive