Synonyms for missing

Grammar : Adj

Spell : mis-ing

Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɪs ɪŋ

Top 10 synonyms for missing

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Définition of missing

Origin : "not present, absent," 1520s, from present participle of miss (v.). Military sense of "not present after a battle but not known to have been killed or captured" is from 1845. Missing link first attested 1851 in Lyell. Missing person is from 1876.

adj gone, absent

Example sentences :

When this spirit of citizenship is missing, no government program can replace it.
Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various

The "missing fourth side" of the room is a commonplace recognized by all.
Extract from : « The Dramatic Values in Plautus » by Wilton Wallace Blancke

One of these missing is worse than a bank clerk out a dollar at the end of the day.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

I should have known he was missing, without going to the volunteers.
Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr

When she arrived at San Francisco she found that the enclosed sheet was missing.
Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

His load was missing: evidently one of the askaris had taken it up.
Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White

They had no great difficulty in getting track of the missing Bavarian.
Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White

A child, a son, might bring with him a little of what was missing in his marriage with her.
Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius

None of the letters was found opened; which ones were missing tie couldn't say.
Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith

You remember what I said to you about sleeping dogs and missing ones.
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

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