amissadjective [ after verb ]
uk/əˈmɪs/us/əˈmɪs/wrong, not suitable, or not as expected:
I could see by the look on their faces that something was amiss.
not go amiss UK informal
If something might/would not go amiss, it would be useful and might help to improve a situation:
A word of apology might not go amiss.
A sense of proportion would not go amiss in all of this.
take sth amiss
to be offended by something that someone has said to you:
I was worried that he might take my remark amiss.
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Wrong
- aberrant
- abnormal
- anomaly
- awry
- back the wrong horse idiom
- bark
- gross
- grossly
- have no business doing sth idiom
- imprecise
- impropriety
- inaccurate
- invalid 1
- irregular
- misspeak
- mistaken
- off beam
- quarrel with sth
- speak
- speak too soon idiom
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Unsuitable and unacceptable
Useful or advantageous
Making people sad, shocked and upset