Missing

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}]
    

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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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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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