missing
Meanings
Plural: missings
Verb
- fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
- feel or suffer from the lack of
- fail to attend an event or activity
- leave undone or leave out
- fail to reach or get to
- be without
- "There is something missing in my jewelry box!"
- fail to reach
- be absent
- "The child had been missing for a week"
- fail to experience
- present participle and gerund of miss
Adjective Satellite
- not able to be found
- "missing in action"
- "a missing person"
- nonexistent
Adj
- Not able to be located; gone, misplaced.
- Not present when it (they) should be.
- Of an internal combustion engine: running roughly due to an occasional lack of a spark or other irregular fault.
Noun
- A value that is missing.
Origin / Etymology
By surface analysis, miss + -ing.
Synonyms
absent, drop, escape, lack, lacking, leave out, lose, lost, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit, wanting
Scrabble Score: 10
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