Dictionary entry

Amiss

Webster's Dictionary 1913

A‐miss″ (�), adv. [Pref. a- + miss.] Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.

What error drives our eyes and ears amiss?

Shak.

Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss.

James iv. 3.

To take (an act, thing) amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at; to take unkindly; as, you must not take these questions amiss.