adjective, adverb
adjective [notbeforenoun] wrong; not as it should be:
She sensed something was amiss and called the police. * He shone a light inside and saw nothing amiss.
Part of speech: adverb
IDIOMS
not come / go amiss (BrE) to be useful or pleasant in a particular situation:
A little luck wouldn't go amiss right now!
take sth amiss (BrE) to feel offended by sth, perhaps because you have understood it in the wrong way:
Would she take it amiss if I offered to help?
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for amiss is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is amiss a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, amiss is tagged as adverb.
Does amiss appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — amiss appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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