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Definition of amiss in English: amissadjectiveəˈmɪsəˈmɪs predicative Not quite right; inappropriate or out of place. there was something amiss about his calculations Example sentencesExamples - On the face of it, there does seem to be something amiss here.
- Saying he would fight for the truth, he even attended a cabinet meeting chaired by the vice president as if nothing was amiss.
- If it finds anything amiss it will correct it within a few seconds.
- I felt like myself yet there was something wrong, something amiss, something lacking from the scene.
- Several more officers examined the picture and, having drawn the conclusion that something was amiss, called the police.
- He phoned the Justice Department - the first alert to anything amiss.
- I first noticed something was amiss by the helicopter circling over the Arakawa at about 8pm on Thursday evening.
- At this point the store manager, who was taking stock nearby, sensed that there was something amiss at the till and walked over.
- No alarm went off, and the officers patrolling the perimeter didn't notice anything amiss.
- Students are also being encouraged to seek help or speak out if they see something amiss on or around school grounds.
- If something amiss is detected, the camera alerts a central control.
- But if something amiss happens in his own team's penalty area, that is usually the moment he was looking the other way.
- When it finished and I had a look at my recent files there was clearly something amiss, something I couldn't ignore.
- That's the most public concession that anything is amiss here, as Chinese media have given scant coverage to the riots.
- Why would he have had to do so unless he detected something amiss?
- Michael arrived at the Wall to find no sign that anything was wrong or amiss.
- I have spent thousands proving things are amiss in this county and I found myself at a cross-roads with nowhere to go.
- Over the last couple days though I've been getting signals that something might be amiss.
- Whatever was amiss, and something definitely was, this was a most uncharacteristic display.
- Offering a contract is wrong; to consider a replacement is amiss, too.
Synonyms wrong, awry, faulty, out of order, defective, unsatisfactory, incorrect, untoward, adrift, astray, inappropriate, improper, unsuitable
adverbəˈmɪsəˈmɪs Wrongly or inappropriately. the prime minister may have constructed his cabinet a little amiss Example sentencesExamples - Obviously little would need to go amiss for the financial plan to go awry.
- The Fijian way of life is glorified as the kind of life where people look after you if anything goes amiss.
- Something has gone amiss with him and that, for England, has been, as it were, the crux.
- What goes amiss in the smoker's crusade to defend themselves is the rights of the people who don't want to be subjected to smoke.
Phrases Be offended by something that is said, especially through misinterpreting the intentions behind it. don't take this amiss, it's all good-humoured teasing Example sentencesExamples - However, a company should never say to an examiner, ‘But last week you said…,’ because the examiner will most likely take it amiss.
- I pray you won't take it amiss if I offer you a refreshment?
- Don't take it amiss but I can not understand why line-wrapping is enabled by default.
- So I am sure that Keith will not take it amiss if I make a few comments (in my usual ‘take no prisoners’ way) about his theories.
- Don't take it amiss, but I'm surprised at your simplicityand not only yours!
- Then he added in embarrassment, ‘Please don't take it amiss, but above all I lack the detachment desirable between penitent and confessor.’
- I wonder if she would take it amiss if I tried to get closer to her.
- Nobody there takes it amiss when things suddenly harden or go soft.
- Faculties often take it amiss when critics appeal over their heads to alumni, trustees or parents.
- But since the state stood to benefit far more than any individual politician, no one took his ambition amiss.
Synonyms be offended by, take offence at, be upset by
something would not go amiss The specified thing would be welcome and useful. you look as if a good meal wouldn't go amiss Example sentencesExamples - A few trees would not go amiss, to break up the expanses and provide a bit of cover, but trees feature rarely in Japanese architecture, which is a shame as when they do appear, they always look exceptionally fine.
- A clear indication of just how much further expansion costs are expected to drive this figure would not go amiss.
- A little more punch throughout would not go amiss and perhaps some erring on the side of abandon rather than correctness that may come in time.
- In addition a little local knowledge would not go amiss, as the car park ‘floats’ on several metres of boggy ground.
- A new appetizer recipe for mussels would not go amiss.
- I think a propaganda feed of our point of view would not go amiss though I doubt its popularity or capability.
- We have high ceilings, so a few Old Masters wouldn't go amiss, and I've quite a hankering for serious sculpture.
- Which is something of a two-edged sword, in that, while I wouldn't wish to have a giant crashing down from above, a goose that lays golden eggs would not go amiss in these days of straightened circumstances.
- Perhaps that is yet to come I hope so - as a little more glamour in the area would not come amiss and 1492 certainly aspires to that.
- I think I'll be happy either way and a little extra vegging time wouldn't go amiss at this point.
Synonyms be welcome, be appropriate, be useful
Origin Middle English: probably from Old Norse á mis 'so as to miss', from á 'on' + mis (related to miss1). Rhymes abyss, bis, bliss, Chris, Diss, hiss, kiss, Majlis, miss, reminisce, sis, Swiss, this, vis Definition of amiss in US English: amissadjectiveəˈmisəˈmɪs predicative Not quite right; inappropriate or out of place. there was something amiss about his calculations Example sentencesExamples - No alarm went off, and the officers patrolling the perimeter didn't notice anything amiss.
- If it finds anything amiss it will correct it within a few seconds.
- At this point the store manager, who was taking stock nearby, sensed that there was something amiss at the till and walked over.
- When it finished and I had a look at my recent files there was clearly something amiss, something I couldn't ignore.
- That's the most public concession that anything is amiss here, as Chinese media have given scant coverage to the riots.
- Several more officers examined the picture and, having drawn the conclusion that something was amiss, called the police.
- Over the last couple days though I've been getting signals that something might be amiss.
- I first noticed something was amiss by the helicopter circling over the Arakawa at about 8pm on Thursday evening.
- Saying he would fight for the truth, he even attended a cabinet meeting chaired by the vice president as if nothing was amiss.
- But if something amiss happens in his own team's penalty area, that is usually the moment he was looking the other way.
- On the face of it, there does seem to be something amiss here.
- I have spent thousands proving things are amiss in this county and I found myself at a cross-roads with nowhere to go.
- Students are also being encouraged to seek help or speak out if they see something amiss on or around school grounds.
- If something amiss is detected, the camera alerts a central control.
- Whatever was amiss, and something definitely was, this was a most uncharacteristic display.
- Michael arrived at the Wall to find no sign that anything was wrong or amiss.
- I felt like myself yet there was something wrong, something amiss, something lacking from the scene.
- Offering a contract is wrong; to consider a replacement is amiss, too.
- Why would he have had to do so unless he detected something amiss?
- He phoned the Justice Department - the first alert to anything amiss.
Synonyms wrong, awry, faulty, out of order, defective, unsatisfactory, incorrect, untoward, adrift, astray, inappropriate, improper, unsuitable
adverbəˈmisəˈmɪs Wrongly or inappropriately. how terrible was the danger of her loving amiss Example sentencesExamples - Obviously little would need to go amiss for the financial plan to go awry.
- Something has gone amiss with him and that, for England, has been, as it were, the crux.
- What goes amiss in the smoker's crusade to defend themselves is the rights of the people who don't want to be subjected to smoke.
- The Fijian way of life is glorified as the kind of life where people look after you if anything goes amiss.
Phrases Be offended by something that is said, especially through misinterpreting the intentions behind it. don't take this amiss, it's all good-humored teasing Example sentencesExamples - Nobody there takes it amiss when things suddenly harden or go soft.
- So I am sure that Keith will not take it amiss if I make a few comments (in my usual ‘take no prisoners’ way) about his theories.
- Then he added in embarrassment, ‘Please don't take it amiss, but above all I lack the detachment desirable between penitent and confessor.’
- However, a company should never say to an examiner, ‘But last week you said…,’ because the examiner will most likely take it amiss.
- I pray you won't take it amiss if I offer you a refreshment?
- Don't take it amiss but I can not understand why line-wrapping is enabled by default.
- Faculties often take it amiss when critics appeal over their heads to alumni, trustees or parents.
- Don't take it amiss, but I'm surprised at your simplicityand not only yours!
- But since the state stood to benefit far more than any individual politician, no one took his ambition amiss.
- I wonder if she would take it amiss if I tried to get closer to her.
Synonyms be offended by, take offence at, be upset by
something would not go amiss The specified thing would be welcome and useful. you look as if a good meal wouldn't go amiss Example sentencesExamples - A little more punch throughout would not go amiss and perhaps some erring on the side of abandon rather than correctness that may come in time.
- In addition a little local knowledge would not go amiss, as the car park ‘floats’ on several metres of boggy ground.
- A few trees would not go amiss, to break up the expanses and provide a bit of cover, but trees feature rarely in Japanese architecture, which is a shame as when they do appear, they always look exceptionally fine.
- Perhaps that is yet to come I hope so - as a little more glamour in the area would not come amiss and 1492 certainly aspires to that.
- A clear indication of just how much further expansion costs are expected to drive this figure would not go amiss.
- Which is something of a two-edged sword, in that, while I wouldn't wish to have a giant crashing down from above, a goose that lays golden eggs would not go amiss in these days of straightened circumstances.
- A new appetizer recipe for mussels would not go amiss.
- We have high ceilings, so a few Old Masters wouldn't go amiss, and I've quite a hankering for serious sculpture.
- I think a propaganda feed of our point of view would not go amiss though I doubt its popularity or capability.
- I think I'll be happy either way and a little extra vegging time wouldn't go amiss at this point.
Synonyms be welcome, be appropriate, be useful
Origin Middle English: probably from Old Norse á mis ‘so as to miss’, from á ‘on’ + mis (related to miss). |