adj, noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A value that is missing.

   "The treatment of missings is a problem in statistical software."

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of miss form-of, gerund, participle, present

Adjective

1. 1
   Not able to be located; gone, misplaced. not-comparable

   "my missing socks"

2. 2
   Not present when it (they) should be. not-comparable

   "missing data point"

3. 3
   Of an internal combustion engine: running roughly due to an occasional lack of a spark or other irregular fault. not-comparable

Adjective

1. 1
   nonexistent wordnet
2. 2
   not able to be found wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

lackinglostabscondedabsentabsentabsent

Example

More examples

"I was chagrined at missing you."

Etymology

By surface analysis, miss + -ing.

Related phrases

go missingmissing boundarymissing in actionmissing in timemissing man formationmissing marketmissing middlemissing piecemissing stairmissing timemissing trader fraudmissing white girl syndrome

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