BE AMISS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does be amiss mean? 

• BE AMISS (verb)
  The verb BE AMISS has 1 sense:

1. interpret in the wrong way

  Familiarity information: BE AMISS used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BE AMISS (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Interpret in the wrong way

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

be amiss; misapprehend; misconceive; misconstrue; misinterpret; misunderstand

Context example:

She misconstrued my remarks

Hypernyms (to "be amiss" is one way to...):

construe; interpret; see (make sense of; assign a meaning to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

“It would not be amiss,” said Hordle John, “if under his girdle he had four farthings'-worth of wine.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meanwhile, lest anything should really be amiss, or any malefactor seek to escape by the back, you and the boy must go round the corner with a pair of good sticks and take your post at the laboratory door.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Far be it from me, said Sir Claude Latour suavely, to persuade you against this worthy archer, or against Sir Nigel Loring; yet we have been together in many ventures, and perchance it may not be amiss if I say to you what I think upon the matter.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)