miss

Plural: misses

Noun

a young woman
a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)
a form of address for an unmarried woman
A failure to physically hit.
A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed.
An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give).
Someone or something whose loss or absence is felt.
The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
A foul shot that fails to hit the target ball, where the player has, in the referee's judgement, not made every effort to play a legal shot; in addition to conceding points for the foul, the player can be made to play the shot again.
Error, fault; misdeed, wrongdoing, sin.
Hurt or harm from a mistake or accident.
Loss, lack want; hence, the feeling of loss.
A title of respect for an unmarried woman with or without a name used.
A term of address by a student for a female teacher, especially one using their maiden name.
An unmarried woman; a girl.
A kept woman; a mistress.
In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.

Verb

Verb Forms: missed, missing, misses

To fail to hit, reach, or notice something.
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
- "I missed that remark"
- "She missed his point"
feel or suffer from the lack of
- "He misses his mother"
fail to attend an event or activity
- "I missed the concert"
- "He missed school for a week"
leave undone or leave out
- "How could I miss that typo?"
- "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
fail to reach or get to
- "She missed her train"
be without
- "There is something missing in my jewelry box!"
fail to reach
- "The arrow missed the target"
be absent
- "The child had been missing for a week"
fail to experience
- "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc.
To avoid hitting.
To fail to achieve or attain.
To fail to experience, attend, partake, take advantage of, etc.
To avoid or escape.
To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret; to feel sadness at the absence of somebody or something.
To fail to understand.
To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
To be too late to connect with or meet something or someone (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
To be wanting; to lack something that should be present (see also adjectival missing).
To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.
To fail to help the hand of a player.
To fail to score (a goal).
To go wrong; to err.
To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

Examples

"Is Polly still here?" — "No, sorry, you've just missed her. She left a couple of minutes ago."
After four top-ten singles, the band's next release was a miss.
Don’t miss the chance to play a bingo; they’re game-changers in Words With Friends.
Here's my report, Miss Smith.
I fired the gun, but the bullet missed the target.
I had left my wallet at home, but I only missed it when I got to the metro.
I miss going for walks along the beach.
I miss you! Come home soon!
I missed the plane!
I only left the queue for a moment and now I've missed my turn.
I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.
I tried to kick the ball, but missed.
I usually watch the Oscars Ceremonies, but I missed it this year.
I'm not going to the party, but I don't think I'll be missed.
I'm starving! I missed breakfast this morning.
In eight shots at the target he had six misses.
Joe missed the meeting this morning.
Jones put the penalty shot over the bar — what a terrible miss.
Miss me with that nonsense!
Player A: J7. Player B: Q6. Table: 283. The flop missed both players!
She tried to grab hold of the end of the rope, but she missed.
So I'm just going over my early notes, see if I missed anything.
The car is missing essential features.
The car just missed hitting a passer-by.
The company missed all its sales targets.
The driver swerved and just managed to miss the chicken crossing the road.
This jigsaw is missing several pieces.
This offer is too good to miss.
to miss an opportunity, to miss a chance
to miss the joke
Top striker Smith is out injured and will be a big miss for United.
We missed disaster by the skin of our teeth.
You may sit here, Miss Jones.
You may sit here, miss.
Your answer isn't exactly right, but it's a very close miss.

Origin / Etymology

Verb from Middle English missen, from Old English missan (“to miss, escape the notice of a person”), from Proto-West Germanic *missijan, from Proto-Germanic *missijaną (“to miss, go wrong, fail”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to change, exchange, trade”). Cognate with West Frisian misse (“to miss”), Dutch missen (“to miss”), German missen (“to miss”), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish miste (“to lose”), Swedish missa (“to miss”), Norwegian Nynorsk, Icelandic missa (“to lose”) and Latin mittere (“to send, let go”).
Noun from Middle English misse, mis, from Old English miss (“loss, absence”), from Proto-West Germanic *miss, from Proto-Germanic *miss- (“loss”). Cognate with Scots miss (“a loss, want, cause of grief or mourning”), Middle High German misse, mis (“lack, missing, absence”), Icelandic missir (“loss”). Related also to Scots mis (“wrongdoing, sin, guilt”), Dutch mis (“misdeed, wrongdoing, mistake”), Middle Low German misse (“sin, wrong”).

Synonyms

drop, escape, fille, girl, lack, leave out, lose, misfire, missy, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit, young lady, young woman

Antonyms

attend, attend to, have, hit, catch#Verb, collide with, impinge on, run into, strike

Scrabble Score: 6

miss: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
miss: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
miss: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

miss: valid Words With Friends Word