Synonyms for amiss

Most common

awry · wrong · haywire · bad

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

Adverb

Antonyms

right, fine, okay

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Definitions

1. adj. 1

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

   He suspected something was amiss.

2. adv. 1

   Wrongly; mistakenly

Example sentences

• incorrect This book is now considered politically incorrect.
• faulty Your analysis is predicated on faulty assumptions.
• awry The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
• haywire The team went haywire after winning the world cup.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters

bad¹

4 letters

wide¹, awry²

5 letters

wrong¹, false¹

6 letters

faulty², untrue²

7 letters

wrongly², haywire²

8 letters

improper³, faultily

9 letters

incorrect³, defective³, erroneous⁴

10 letters

inaccurate⁴, improperly⁴, fallacious³

11 letters

incorrectly⁴, erroneously⁵, imperfectly⁴

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (awry² = 2 syllables).