Definitions for missing

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missing miss·ing

Spelling: [mis-ing]

IPA: /ˈmɪs ɪŋ/

Missing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in missing (giimnss).

Definitions for missing

noun

1. a failure to hit something.
2. a failure of any kind.
3. an omission.
4. a misfire.

Idioms

1. go missing, to disappear; become lost:
2. miss fire. fire (def 52).

adjective

1. absent, not found, or lost:
2. lacking:

Verb phrases

1. miss out, Chiefly British. to omit; leave out.
2. miss out on, to fail to take advantage of, experience, etc.:

verb (used with object)

1. to fail to hit or strike:
2. to fail to encounter, meet, catch, etc.:
3. to fail to take advantage of:
4. to fail to be present at or for:
5. to notice the absence or loss of:
6. to regret the absence or loss of:
7. to escape or avoid:
8. to fail to perceive or understand:

verb (used without object)

1. to fail to hit something.
2. to fail of effect or success; be unsuccessful.

Origin of missing

First recorded in 1520-30; miss¹ + -ing²

Examples for missing

The "missing fourth side" of the room is a commonplace recognized by all.

Even in the parts of the movement he does cover, some people and efforts are missing.

Sybil is dead, as is Matthew; Gregson is missing with dark hints about his fate.

When she arrived at San Francisco she found that the enclosed sheet was missing.

When this spirit of citizenship is missing, no government program can replace it.

He was treated like an immigrant, working for minimum wage, missing his family and having to move on from his musical career.

I should have known he was missing, without going to the volunteers.

One of these missing is worse than a bank clerk out a dollar at the end of the day.

Otherwise, we will be but celebrating an empty holiday, missing its true meaning altogether.

Even those Christians who do want to minister amid the rancor of race and policing are missing the mark.