missing
mis ing
- v fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
- v feel or suffer from the lack of
- v fail to attend an event or activity
- v leave undone or leave out
- v fail to reach or get to
- v be without
There is something missing in my jewelry box! - v fail to reach
- v be absent
The child had been missing for a week - v fail to experience
- s not able to be found
missing in action
a missing person - s nonexistent
- The amount of missing materiel was not huge.
- The parents of the British girl who went missing in Portugal are now under suspicion, but much about the case remains a baffling mystery.
- John Darwin, the missing kayaker who resurfaced, claiming amnesia, more than five years after apparently drowning, and his wife, Anne, are now both in custody.