adj
Meaning 1
Not able to be located; gone, misplaced.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- my missing socks
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: absent, lost
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
missing
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈmɪsɪŋ/
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rhymes with -ɪsɪŋ
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CMU ARPABET: M IH1 S IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Not present when it (they) should be.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- missing data point
- Joe went missing last year. He had all teeth missing when he was finally found.
- We've got some flatware missing - There seem to be some cooking utensils missing too!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Of an internal combustion engine: running roughly due to an occasional lack of a spark or other irregular fault.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A value that is missing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
present participle and gerund of miss
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
nonexistent
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the thumb is absent
- her appetite was lacking
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lacking, absent, wanting
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
not able to be found
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- missing in action
- a missing person
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
By surface analysis, miss + -ing.
Across languages
Translations
72 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: Humbur — not able to be located
- Arabic: مَفْقُود (mafqūd) — not able to be located
- Arabic: مَفْقُود (mafgūd) — not able to be located
- Armenian: պակաս (pakas) — not able to be located
- Azerbaijani: itkin — not able to be located
- Belarusian: адсу́тны (adsútny) — not able to be located
- Belarusian: згу́блены (zhúbljeny) — not able to be located
- Belarusian: стра́чаны (stráčany) — not able to be located
- Bulgarian: изгубен (izguben) — not able to be located
- Chinese Mandarin: 失蹤 /失踪 (shīzōng) — not able to be located
- Chinese Mandarin: ...丟了 /...丢了 — not able to be located
- Chinese Mandarin: ...丢了 /丢 (...diū le) — not able to be located
- Dutch: vermist — not able to be located
- Estonian: kadunud — not able to be located
- Estonian: puudu olev — not able to be located
- Finnish: puuttuva — not able to be located
- Finnish: hukassa — not able to be located
- Finnish: kateissa — not able to be located
- French: manquant — not able to be located
- French: disparu — not able to be located
- Galician: ausente — not able to be located
- Galician: desaparecido — not able to be located
- Galician: desaparecida — not able to be located
- German: abgängig — not able to be located
- German: fehlend — not able to be located
- German: verschwunden — not able to be located
- Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐍃 (wans) — not able to be located
- Greek: αγνοούμενος (agnooúmenos) — not able to be located
- Hungarian: hiányzó — not able to be located
- Irish: ar iarraidh — not able to be located
- Irish: easpach — not able to be located
- Italian: mancante — not able to be located
- Italian: disperso — not able to be located
- Laboya: jada — not able to be located
- Latin: absens — not able to be located
- Latin: dēlicuus — not able to be located
- Malay: hilang — not able to be located
- Norwegian Bokmål: savnet — not able to be located
- Occitan: desaparegut — not able to be located
- Polish: brakujący — not able to be located
- Polish: zaginiony — not able to be located
- Portuguese: sumido — not able to be located
- Portuguese: faltante — not able to be located
- Portuguese: desaparecido — not able to be located
- Portuguese: perdido — not able to be located
- Romanian: dispărut — not able to be located
- Russian: отсу́тствующий (otsútstvujuščij) — not able to be located
- Russian: потерянный (poterjannyj) — not able to be located
- Spanish: faltante — not able to be located
- Spanish: ausente — not able to be located
- Spanish: desaparecido — not able to be located
- Swedish: försvunnen — not able to be located
- Swedish: saknad — not able to be located
- Tongan: tulia — not able to be located
- Turkish: kayıp — not able to be located
- Ukrainian: відсу́тній (vidsútnij) — not able to be located
- Ukrainian: загу́блений (zahúblenyj) — not able to be located
- Urdu: لاپَتَہ (lāpatah) — not able to be located
- Vietnamese: mất — not able to be located
- Bulgarian: липсващ (lipsvašt) — not present when it (they) should be
- Bulgarian: отсъстващ (otsǎstvašt) — not present when it (they) should be
- Galician: ausente — not present when it (they) should be
- German: abgängig — not present when it (they) should be
- German: fehlend — not present when it (they) should be
- German: vermisst — not present when it (they) should be
- Greek: απών (apón) — not present when it (they) should be
- Malay: tertinggal — not present when it (they) should be
- Turkish: eksik — not present when it (they) should be
- Turkish: kayıp — not present when it (they) should be
- Ottoman Turkish: اكسیك (eksik) — not present when it (they) should be
- Ottoman Turkish: نقصان (noksan) — not present when it (they) should be
- Vietnamese: thiếu — not present when it (they) should be
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