Definition of miss

noun (n)

• a young woman (noun.person)

  Synonym: fille, girl, missy, young lady, young woman
  

  source: wordnet30
• a failure to hit (or meet or find etc) (noun.event)

  Synonym: misfire
  

  source: wordnet30
• a form of address for an unmarried woman (noun.communication)

  source: wordnet30
• A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5. (noun)

  source: webster1913
• The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc. (noun)

  source: webster1913

verb (v)

• fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind (verb.perception)

  Synonym: lose
  

  Example:
  I missed that remark.
  She missed his point.
  

  source: wordnet30
• feel or suffer from the lack of (verb.emotion)

  Example:
  He misses his mother.
  

  source: wordnet30
• fail to attend an event or activity (verb.stative)

  Antonym: attend, go to
  

  Example:
  I missed the concert.
  He missed school for a week.
  

  source: wordnet30
• leave undone or leave out (verb.cognition)

  Synonym: drop, leave out, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit
  Antonym: attend to, take to heart
  

  Example:
  How could I miss that typo?.
  The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten.
  

  source: wordnet30
• fail to reach or get to (verb.motion)

  Example:
  She missed her train.
  

  source: wordnet30
• be without (verb.stative)

  Synonym: lack
  Antonym: feature, have
  

  Example:
  There is something missing in my jewelry box!.
  

  source: wordnet30
• fail to reach (verb.contact)

  Antonym: collide with, hit, impinge on, run into, strike
  

  Example:
  The arrow missed the target.
  

  source: wordnet30
• be absent (verb.stative)

  Example:
  The child had been missing for a week.
  

  source: wordnet30
• fail to experience (verb.communication)

  Synonym: escape
  

  Example:
  Fortunately, I missed the hurricane.
  

  source: wordnet30
• 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. (verb)

  source: webster1913
• To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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