miss

miss is a 4-letter English word with 27 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 27 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
2. noun. A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
3. noun. A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.
4. noun. In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
5. transitive verb. To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said.
6. transitive verb. To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.
7. transitive verb. To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.
8. intransitive verb. To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
9. intransitive verb. To fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with of.
10. intransitive verb. To go wrong; to err.
11. intransitive verb. To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
12. noun. The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
13. noun. Loss; want; felt absence.
14. noun. Mistake; error; fault.
15. noun. Harm from mistake.
16. noun. a form of address for an unmarried woman
17. noun. a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)

    Synonyms: misfire

18. noun. a young woman

    "a young lady of 18"

    Synonyms: fille, girl, missy

19. verb. leave undone or leave out

    "How could I miss that typo?"

    "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"

    Synonyms: drop, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit

20. verb. fail to experience

    "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"

    Synonyms: escape

21. verb. fail to reach

    "The arrow missed the target"

22. verb. feel or suffer from the lack of

    "He misses his mother"

23. verb. fail to reach or get to

    "She missed her train"

24. verb. fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind

    "I missed that remark"

    "She missed his point"

    Synonyms: lose

25. verb. fail to attend an event or activity

    "I missed the concert"

    "He missed school for a week"

26. verb. be without

    "This soup lacks salt"

    "There is something missing in my jewelry box!"

    Synonyms: lack

27. verb. be absent

    "The child had been missing for a week"

Synonyms

misfire, fille, girl, missy, drop, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit, escape, lose, lack

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in miss:

isms, sims

Common word forms

mis, missal, missed, misses, missing, missable, missment

Words from these letters

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