Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
- 2noun
A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
- 3noun
A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.
- 4noun
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.
- 5transitive 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.
- 6transitive verb
To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.
- 7transitive verb
To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.
- 8intransitive verb
To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
- 9intransitive verb
To fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with of.
- 10intransitive verb
To go wrong; to err.
- 11intransitive verb
To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
- 12noun
The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
- 13noun
Loss; want; felt absence.
- 14noun
Mistake; error; fault.
- 15noun
Harm from mistake.
- 16noun
a form of address for an unmarried woman
- 17noun
a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)
Synonyms
- 18noun
a young woman
"a young lady of 18"
- 19verb
leave undone or leave out
"How could I miss that typo?"
"The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
- 20verb
fail to experience
"Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
Synonyms
- 21verb
fail to reach
"The arrow missed the target"
- 22verb
feel or suffer from the lack of
"He misses his mother"
- 23verb
fail to reach or get to
"She missed her train"
- 24verb
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
"I missed that remark"
"She missed his point"
Synonyms
- 25verb
fail to attend an event or activity
"I missed the concert"
"He missed school for a week"
- 26verb
be without
"This soup lacks salt"
"There is something missing in my jewelry box!"
Synonyms
- 27verb
be absent
"The child had been missing for a week"
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