[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

amiss \amiss"\ .ami^s", a.
   wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be
   amiss to ask advice.

   note: used only in the predicate. --dryden.
         1913 webster

               his wisdom and virtue can not always rectify that
               which is amiss in himself or his circumstances.
                                                  --wollaston.
         1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

amiss \amiss"\, n.
   a fault, wrong, or mistake. obs.
   1913 webster

         each toy seems prologue to some great amiss. --shak.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

amiss \amiss"\, adv. pref. a- + miss.
   astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.
   1913 webster

         what error drives our eyes and ears amiss? --shak.
   1913 webster

         ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. --james
                                                  iv. 3.
   1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
to take an act, thing amiss 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

amiss
     adj : not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone
           completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the
           engine" syn: amissp, awryp, haywire, wrongp
     adv 1: away from the correct or expected course; "something has
            gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss
            in the preparations" syn: awry
     2: in an improper or mistaken or unfortunate manner; "if you
        think him guilty you judge amiss"; "he spoke amiss"; "no
        one took it amiss when she spoke frankly"
     3: in an imperfect or faulty way; "the lobe was imperfectly
        developed"; "miss bennet would not play at all amiss if
        she practiced more"- jane austen syn: imperfectly
        ant: perfectly
see also:
amissp awryp haywire wrongp awry imperfectly 
perfectly 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

136 moby thesaurus words for "amiss":
   aberrant, abroad, adrift, afield, all abroad, all off, all wrong,
   askew, astray, at fault, awry, bad, badly, below the mark,
   beside the mark, beside the point, blamable, blameful, bootlessly,
   bum, censurable, cockeyed, confused, convulsed, corrupt, crappy,
   culpable, deceptive, defective, delusive, deranged, deviant,
   deviational, deviative, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed,
   disconcerted, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized,
   dissatisfactory, distorted, disturbed, errant, erring, erroneous,
   erroneously, evil, evilly, fallacious, fallaciously, false,
   falsely, far from it, faultful, faultfully, faultily, faulty,
   flawed, fruitlessly, guilty, haywire, heretical, heterodox, ill,
   illogical, illusory, imperfect, imperfectly, improper, improperly,
   in disorder, in vain, inaccurately, inappropriately, incorrect,
   incorrectly, indiscreetly, inopportunely, misinterpret, misplaced,
   mistake, mistakenly, misunderstand, not right, not true, off,
   off the track, on the fritz, out, out of gear, out of joint,
   out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place,
   out of tune, out of whack, peccant, perturbed, perverse, perverted,
   poor, poorly, punk, reprehensible, roily, rotten,
   self-contradictory, shuffled, sick, sinful, straying,
   to no purpose, turbid, turbulent, unfactual, unfavorably, unholy,
   unorthodox, unpropitiously, unproved, unsatisfactory, unsettled,
   untoward, untrue, untruly, unwisely, up, upset, vainly, wide,
   wrong, wrongly

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