miss in English dictionary

  • miss

    Meanings and definitions of "miss"

    • (transitive) To fail to hit.
    • (transitive) To feel the absence of someone or something, sometimes with regret.
    • (transitive) To fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception.
    • (transitive) To fail to attend.
    • (transitive) To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline etc).
    • A failure to hit.
    • A failure to obtain or accomplish.
    • An act of avoidance.
    • A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
    • An unmarried woman; a girl.
    • noun
      A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
    • noun
      An unmarried woman; a girl.
    • noun
      A kept woman; a mistress.
    • noun
      (card games)
      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.
    • noun
      A failure to hit.
    • noun
      A failure to obtain or accomplish.
    • noun
      An act of avoidance (used with the verb give).
    • noun
      (computing)
      The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
    • verb
      (transitive, intransitive)
      To fail to hit.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To fail to achieve or attain.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To feel the absence of someone or something, sometimes with regret.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To fail to attend.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
    • verb
      (poker, said of a card)
      To fail to help the hand of a player.
    • verb
      (sports)
      To fail to score (a goal).
    • verb
      (intransitive, obsolete)
      To go wrong; to err.
    • verb
      (intransitive, obsolete)
      To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
    • An unmarried woman.
    • A line of code that was not executed by a test.
    • To need a number or amount of something, but not having enough or any at all.
    • miss (mistake, error, failure)
    • miss (seeing)
    • miss (doing)
    • To feel regret or sadness because of the absence of a person.
    • miss (a train)
    • miss (train, bus, etc.)
    • miss (a chance)
    • miss (capturing)
    • To fail to hit (a target, a bell, etc.).
    • to fail to hit
    • to feel the absence of someone or something
    • to avoid
    • to fail to understand
    • to fail to attend
    • to be late for something
    • a failure to hit
    • a failure to obtain or accomplish
    • unmarried woman
    • noun
      a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)
    • noun
      a young female; "a young lady of 18"
    • verb
      be absent; "The child had been missing for a week"
    • verb
      be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewelry box!"
    • verb
      fail to attend an event or activity; "I missed the concert"; "He missed school for a week"
    • verb
      fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
    • verb
      fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said"
    • verb
      fail to reach or get to; "She missed her train"
    • verb
      fail to reach; "The arrow missed the target"
    • verb
      feel or suffer from the lack of; "He misses his mother"
    • verb
      leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"

    Synonyms of "miss" in English dictionary

    go wrong, miscarry, desire are the top synonyms of "miss" in the English thesaurus.

    Antonyms of "miss" in English dictionary

    attend, have, hit are the top antonyms of "miss" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of miss

    • miss ( countable and uncountable;  plural  misses)
    • miss ( third-person singular simple present misses, present participle missing, simple past and past participle missed)
    • miss ( plural  misses)
    • lp  liczba pojedyncza miss, lm  liczba mnoga misses miss, missed, misses, missing
    • miss (plural misses)
    • miss (third-person singular simple present misses, present participle missing, simple past and past participle missed)
  • Miss

    Meanings and definitions of "miss"

    • Form of address for an unmarried woman.
    • Form of address for a teacher or a waitress.
    • noun
      Form of address for an unmarried woman.
    • noun
      Form of address for a teacher or a waitress.
    • Mr, Mrs, Miss or Ms
    • title
    • noun
      a form of address for an unmarried woman

    Synonyms of "miss" in English dictionary

    Another word for "miss" in the English thesaurus is Ms..

    Grammar and declension of miss

    • Miss (plural Misses or Mlles)
  • MiSS
  • MISS

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