Amass vs Amiss - What's the difference?
amass | amiss |
To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.
* 1887 , , A Study in Scarlet , Part II, Chapter V, page 123:
(obsolete) A mass; a heap.
* Thomas Pownall
Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.
* Wollaston
(obsolete) Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
* 1635 , John Donne, "His parting from her":
In obsolete terms the difference between amass and amiss
is that amass is a mass; a heap while amiss is fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.As a verb amass
is to collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.As an adjective amiss is
wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.As an adverb amiss is
mistakenly.amass
English
Verb
(es)- to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases
- he reluctantly returned to the old Nevada mines, there to recruit his health and to amass money enough to allow him to pursue his object without privation.
Synonyms
* accumulate, heap up, pileNoun
(es)- a general idea of an amass of arms
Anagrams
*amiss
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He suspected something was amiss .
- Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff.
- His wisdom and virtue cannot always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances.
Noun
(amisses)- Now by my head (said Guyon) much I muse, / How that same knight should do so foule amis [...].
- Yet Love, thou'rt blinder then thy self in this, / To vex my Dove-like friend for my amiss [...].