English-Portuguese translations for amiss

• errado
  Os dados estatísticos que sobre esse aspecto nos foram fornecidos não dão qualquer motivo para pensar que nele haja algo de errado. The statistical data we received in this respect does not lead us to believe that anything should be amiss.
  Se, pelo contrário, os trabalhadores que ocupam as posições mais fracas tiverem de trabalhar mais tempo, algo está errado. If, on the other hand, workers in the weakest positions have to work longer hours, then there is something amiss.
  Em vez disso, temos na câmara secreta do Parlamento um volumoso documento confidencial que sugere que pode haver algo de errado. Instead, there is now in Parliament’s secret chamber a chunky, confidential document that suggests that something may be amiss.

Definition of amiss

• Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect
• Wrongly
• Mistakenly
• Imperfectly
• Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed

Examples

• He suspected something was amiss.
• Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff.

Related words

• amissible
• amission
• amissibility