Antics vs Amiss - What's the difference?
antics | amiss |
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":
As nouns the difference between antics and amiss
is that antics is while amiss is (obsolete) fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.As a verb antics
is (antic).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
(archaic) mistakenly.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 [...].