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Meaning of MISSING

Pronunciation:  'miseeng

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  not able to be found; "missing in action"; "a missing person"
  2. [adj]  not existing; "innovation has been sadly lacking"; "character development is missing from the book"
 
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 Synonyms: absent, lacking(p), lost, nonexistent, wanting(a)
 

 

 

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Missing
Maxine is still trying to accept the fact that her older brother, Derek, is missing and believed dead. Then she begins receiving phone calls from someone claiming to be Derek--could it really be her brother or is someone trying to drive her insane?

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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. --1 Sam.
                                               xxv. 7.
      For a time caught up to God, as once Moses was in the
      mount, and missing long.                 --Milton.
 
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Dream Dictionary
 
 Definition: Dreaming that you are missing something indicates a sense of being out of control and being disorganized.
 
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 Related Terms: absconded, absent, arrested, away, bankrupt in, bare of, bereft of, callow, defective, deficient, deleted, denuded of, departed, deprived of, destitute of, devoid, devoid of, disappeared, embryonic, empty of, existless, extinct, failing, for want of, forlorn of, gone, gone away, hypoplastic, immature, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in default of, in short supply, in want of, inadequate, incomplete, infant, lacking, lost, lost to sight, lost to view, minus, needing, negative, no longer present, no more, nonattendant, nonexistent, not found, not present, null, omitted, out of, out of pocket, out of sight, part, partial, past and gone, patchy, scant, scant of, scanty, scrappy, short, short of, shy, shy of, sketchy, subtracted, taken away, unblessed with, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unexisting, unpossessed of, vacuous, vanished, void, void of, wanting, without being
 

 

 

 

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