Word Type

Adjective

Adjective

Verb

Noun

The word "missing" can be used as adjective, adjective, verb and noun.

Word Relationships

Causes Desire

find lost item

Derived Terms

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 turn up missing

Inflected/Variant Forms

miss

Context

statistics

Related Terms

missing in action missing link missing person

Related Terms

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

Similar Terms

lost lost nonexistent

Synonym Network

lacking

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