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[syn: lacking, absent, missing, wanting]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will
acknowledge he judged not right. --Locke.
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2. To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to
dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.
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She would never miss, one day,
A walk so fine, a sight so gay. --Prior.
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We cannot miss him; he does make our fire,
Fetch in our wood. --Shak.
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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.
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Neither missed we anything . . . Nothing was missed
of all that pertained unto him. --1 Sam. xxv.
15, 21.
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What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss.
--Milton.
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To miss stays. (Naut.) See under Stay.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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Neither was there aught missing unto them. --1 Sam.
xxv. 7.
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For a time caught up to God, as once
Moses was in the mount, and missing long. --Milton.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
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