amiss

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in an improper or mistaken or unfortunate manner

   The crowd was convinced the defendant had been judged amiss.

2. 2
   adj

   Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect.

   He suspected something was amiss.

3. 3
   adv

   Wrongly; mistakenly

   The fire seven times tried this: Seven times tried that judgement is, That did never choose amiss. Some there be that shadows kiss: Such have but a shadow's bliss. There be fools alive, I wis, Silver'd o'er; and so was this. I will ever be your head: So be gone: you are sped.

4. 4
   noun

   Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.

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

From a- + miss.

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