missing

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.

Examples

• Joe went missing last year. He had all teeth missing when he was finally found.
• missing data point
• my missing socks
• We've got some flatware missing - There seem to be some cooking utensils missing too!

Synonyms

absent, drop, escape, lack, lacking, leave out, lose, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit, wanting, lost

Antonyms

attend, attend to, have, hit

Related Words

missing in action, missing link, missing person

Anagrams of missing