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单词 amiss
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amiss
adjective[after verb]
uk
/əˈmɪs/us
/əˈmɪs/
wrong, notsuitable, or not asexpected:
不对的；不合适的；不正常的
I couldseeby thelookontheirfacesthatsomething wasamiss.我从他们的神情上看出，有什么事情出了差错。
not go amissUKinformal
If something might/would not go amiss, it would beusefuland mighthelptoimproveasituation:
并非无用；并非没益处
A word ofapologymight not go amiss.道个歉或许并无坏处。
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takesomethingamiss
to beoffendedby something that someone has said to you:
友好，和睦
I wasworriedthat he might take myremarkamiss.我担心他对我的话也许会见怪。
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Wrong
  • aberrant
  • abnormal
  • anomalous
  • awry
  • back the wrong horseidiom
  • bark
  • false positive
  • falsely
  • flawed
  • gross
  • grossly
  • have no business doingsomethingidiom
  • irregular
  • irregularly
  • liberal
  • liberally
  • mal-
  • mis-
  • quarrel
  • wrongly
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Unsuitable and unacceptable
(Definition ofamissfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

amiss| American Dictionary

amiss
adjective
us
/əˈmɪs/
notright; notsuitableor asexpected:
Hesuspectedsomething was amiss.
(Definition ofamissfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofamiss

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Since she is not royalty, nor lady, nor, by her own confession, "amiss," the curtain is rung down on this puzzler.
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A few more words on seismic resolution and its physical basis would not have comeamiss.
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The hedging with ' virtually ' is a second clue that something isamiss.
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In fact information about the authors and where they come from would not beamiss.
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Either way, a definition would not goamiss.
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She only felt that there was something irrevocablyamissand lost in her lot.
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The information is brief enough to be unhelpful, and a list of further reading would not have goneamiss.
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No one is asking for pages of purple prose, but an awareness of the maintenance of interest would not comeamiss.
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They all suggest that there is somethingamiss, or potentiallyamiss, with social solidarity, and make suggestions about what should be done about this.
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An initial setting-out of the defining features of the film medium might not have comeamiss, with leading questions about their impact on opera.
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An extra 150 pages, say, eight extra chapters, would not have goneamiss.
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For this reason, a few words about that book may not beamiss.
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It is a charitable account that does not find anything deeplyamissin his ideas.
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Indeed, they are enterprises in which it would not beamissfor the ones subject to authority to anticipate the 14.
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Clearly, however, something has goneamiss.
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