Missing

//ˈmɪsɪŋ//

Synonyms for "missing" (90 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (18)

lacking lost absconded absent arrested away bankrupt bankrupt in bare of bereft bereft of callow casualty defective deficient deleted

Adjective(1 words)

absent

Adjective(1 words)

absent

Strong matches (27)

Related words (45)

Adjective(2 words)

lacking wanting

Adjective(1 words)

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

Show 22 more words

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

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

8 relation types

Synonyms

1 entries

lacking

Related terms

3 entries

missing in action missing link missing person

causes desire

1 entries

find lost item

derived

17 entries

go missing missing boundary missing in action missing in time missing man formation missing market missing middle missing piece missing stair missing time missing trader fraud missing white girl syndrome missing white woman syndrome missingly missingness nonmissing

Showing 16 of 17 words.

form of

1 entries

miss

has context

1 entries

statistics

related to

9 entries

gone internal combustion misplaced missing in action missing link missing person present spark value

similar

3 entries

lost nonexistent

Translations

66 translations across 34 languages.

Albanian

1 entries

Humbur adj (not able to be located)

Arabic

2 entries

مَفْقُود adj (not able to be located)
مَفْقُود adj (not able to be located)

Armenian

1 entries

պակաս adj (not able to be located)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

itkin adj (not able to be located)

Belarusian

3 entries

адсу́тны adj (not able to be located)
згу́блены adj (not able to be located)
стра́чаны adj (not able to be located)

Bulgarian

3 entries

изгубен adj (not able to be located)
липсващ adj (not present when it (they) should be)
отсъстващ adj (not present when it (they) should be)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

...丟了 /...丢了 adj (not able to be located)
...丢了 /丢 adj (not able to be located)
失蹤 /失踪 adj (not able to be located)

Dutch

1 entries

vermist adj (not able to be located)

Estonian

2 entries

kadunud adj (not able to be located)
puudu olev adj (not able to be located)

Finnish

3 entries

hukassa adj (not able to be located)
kateissa adj (not able to be located)
puuttuva adj (not able to be located)

French

2 entries

disparu adj (not able to be located)
manquant adj (not able to be located)

Galician

4 entries

ausente adj (not able to be located)
ausente adj (not present when it (they) should be)
desaparecida adj (not able to be located)
desaparecido adj (not able to be located)

German

1 entries

fehlend adj (not able to be located)

Gothic

1 entries

𐍅𐌰𐌽𐍃 adj (not able to be located)

Greek

2 entries

αγνοούμενος adj (not able to be located)
απών adj (not present when it (they) should be)

Irish

2 entries

ar iarraidh adj (not able to be located)
easpach adj (not able to be located)

Italian

2 entries

disperso adj (not able to be located)
mancante adj (not able to be located)

Laboya

1 entries

jada adj (not able to be located)

Latin

2 entries

absens adj (not able to be located)
dēlicuus adj (not able to be located)

Malay

2 entries

hilang adj (not able to be located)
tertinggal adj (not present when it (they) should be)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

savnet adj (not able to be located)

Occitan

1 entries

desaparegut adj (not able to be located)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

اكسیك adj (not present when it (they) should be)
نقصان adj (not present when it (they) should be)

Polish

2 entries

brakujący adj (not able to be located)
zaginiony adj (not able to be located)

Portuguese

4 entries

desaparecido adj (not able to be located)
faltante adj (not able to be located)
perdido adj (not able to be located)
sumido adj (not able to be located)

Romanian

1 entries

dispărut adj (not able to be located)

Russian

2 entries

отсу́тствующий adj (not able to be located)
потерянный adj (not able to be located)

Spanish

3 entries

ausente adj (not able to be located)
desaparecido adj (not able to be located)
faltante adj (not able to be located)

Swedish

2 entries

försvunnen adj (not able to be located)
saknad adj (not able to be located)

Tongan

1 entries

tulia adj (not able to be located)

Turkish

3 entries

eksik adj (not present when it (they) should be)
kayıp adj (not able to be located)
kayıp adj (not present when it (they) should be)

Ukrainian

2 entries

відсу́тній adj (not able to be located)
загу́блений adj (not able to be located)

Urdu

1 entries

لاپَتَہ adj (not able to be located)

Vietnamese

2 entries

mất adj (not able to be located)
thiếu adj (not present when it (they) should be)

Sample sentences

19 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I was chagrined at missing you.

Source: tatoeba (17485)

We searched the woods for the missing child.

Source: tatoeba (22984)

I was conscious that something was missing.

Source: tatoeba (25113)

What is missing?

Source: tatoeba (25227)

Showing 4 of 19 available sentences.

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.