'Missing' definitions:
Definition of 'missing'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Missing'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Missing'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'missing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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