Definizione monolingua

amiss

amiss (plural amisses)

1. (obsolete) Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     Now by my head (said Guyon) much I muse, / How that same knight should do so foule amis [...].

   • 1635, John Donne, ""His parting from her"":

     Yet Love, thourt blinder then thy self in this, / To vex my Dove-like friend for my amiss [...].

amiss (comparative more amiss, superlative most amiss)

1. Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.

   He suspected something was amiss.

   Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff.

amiss (comparative more amiss, superlative most amiss)

1. (archaic) Mistakenly
2. (archaic) Astray
3. (archaic) Wrongly.

Definizione dizionario amiss

falso

male

sbagliato

Altri significati:

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

(archaic) Astray

(archaic) Mistakenly

(obsolete) Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.

(archaic) Wrongly.