missing

[MissĀ·ing]

Not able to be found

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Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; wanting; not present when called or looked for.

Adjective S.
not able to be found; "missing in action"; "a missing person"

Adjective S.
not existing; "innovation has been sadly lacking"; "character development is missing from the book"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Miss

v. i.
Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; wanting; not present when called or looked for.


Missing

Miss"ing , a. [From Miss, v. i.] Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; wanting; not present when called or looked for.
Neither was there aught missing unto them.
For a time caught up to God, as once Moses was in the mount, and missing long.

Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; wanting; not present when called or looked for.

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Usage Examples

Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.

I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.

I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. 'Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person.'

I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.

From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.

'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Four men are missing R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.

I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.

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