amiss

FREQ #20525

a. 有毛病的, 出差错的 adv. 错误地, 不顺当, 有缺陷地

发音

UK /əˈmɪs/
其它
US /əˈmɪs/

词形变化

amisses more amiss 比较级 most amiss 最高级

别名

amisse

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

    废旧
adj.
  1. 1.

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

    表语

    He suspected something was amiss.

    Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff.

adv.
  1. 1.

    Wrongly; mistakenly

    古体

    Then Hrefna said she would coif herself with it, and Thurid said she had better, and Hrefna did so. When Kalf saw that he gave her to understand that she had done amiss; and bade her take it off at her swiftest. "For that is the one thing that we, Kjartan and I, do not own in common."

  2. 2.

    Astray.

  3. 3.

    Imperfectly.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 3

wrong haywire awry

近义相关 1

nonfunctional
副词

同义词 2

awry imperfectly

相关短语

go amiss dead amiss goes amiss going amiss went amiss gone amiss

词源

From a- + miss.

来源：wiktionary