Meaning

1 senses
  1. (predicative)Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect.

    He suspected something was amiss.

    Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff.

    нела́дноneládno, не та́кne ták

More definitions
  • not functioning properly

Examples

26 sentences
  1. Tom thought that something was amiss.

  2. Tom thought something was amiss.

  3. Is there something amiss with her?

    Із нею щось не так? — deniko

    ruС ней что-то не так? — marafon

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  4. I felt that something was amiss.

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  5. Janos realized that something was amiss.

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect — see also wrong:

Origin

From a- + miss.

From a- + miss.

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Forms

more amiss, most amiss
Comparativemore amiss Lesson
Superlativemost amiss Lesson

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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