Missing
10 definitions retrieved  Miss \Miss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Missed (m[i^]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Missing.] [AS. missan; akin to D. & G. missen, OHG. missan, Icel. missa, Sw. mista, Dan. miste. [root]100. See Mis-, pref.] 1. To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said. [1913 Webster] When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 2. To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons. [1913 Webster] She would never miss, one day, A walk so fine, a sight so gay. --Prior. [1913 Webster] We cannot miss him; he does make our fire, Fetch in our wood. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want; as, to miss an absent loved one. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Neither missed we anything . . . Nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him. --1 Sam. xxv. 15, 21. [1913 Webster] What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss. --Milton. [1913 Webster] To miss stays. (Naut.) See under Stay. [1913 Webster] Missing \Miss"ing\, a. [From Miss, v. i.] Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; lacking; wanting; not present when called or looked for. [1913 Webster] Neither was there aught missing unto them. --1 Sam. xxv. 7. [1913 Webster] For a time caught up to God, as once Moses was in the mount, and missing long. --Milton. [1913 Webster]  missing adj 1: not able to be found; "missing in action"; "a missing person" 2: nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking" [syn: lacking, absent, missing, wanting]  missing [misiŋ] fehlend; fehlt; verabsäumend; versäumend  missing eltûnt elveszett hiányzó kihagyás távollevô  missing fehlend adj missing versäumend; verabsäumend adj missing verschollen missing vermissend; missend; verfehlend; verpassend; versäumend; übersehend  82 Moby Thesaurus words for "missing": absconded, absent, arrested, away, bankrupt in, bare of, bereft of, callow, defective, deficient, deleted, denuded of, departed, deprived of, destitute of, devoid, devoid of, disappeared, embryonic, empty of, existless, extinct, failing, for want of, forlorn of, gone, gone away, hypoplastic, immature, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in default of, in short supply, in want of, inadequate, incomplete, infant, lacking, lost, lost to sight, lost to view, minus, needing, negative, no longer present, no more, nonattendant, nonexistent, not found, not present, null, omitted, out of, out of pocket, out of sight, part, partial, past and gone, patchy, scant, scant of, scanty, scrappy, short, short of, shy, shy of, sketchy, subtracted, taken away, unblessed with, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unexisting, unpossessed of, vacuous, vanished, void, void of, wanting, without being Missing related |
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