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Synonyms for missing
ˈmɪs ɪŋmiss·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
missingadjective
not able to be found
"missing in action"; "a missing person"
lacking, absent, missing, wantingadjective
nonexistent
"the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking"
Synonyms:
abstracted, scatty, lacking(p), wanting, lacking, wanting(p), absentminded, deficient, absent
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "missing":
disappeared, disappearance, unaccounted, extirpated, disappearances, extinct, gone, lacking, lost, lack, absent, vanished, absence
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1079 | lost | |
#2246 | missing | |
#2332 | gone | |
#2498 | lack | |
#4642 | absence | |
#6793 | absent | |
#7663 | wanting | |
#10574 | lacking | |
#11963 | disappeared | |
#17142 | deficient | |
#21577 | disappearance | |
#22651 | extinct | |
#23553 | vanished | |
#41382 | abstracted | |
#57328 | disappearances | |
#58446 | unaccounted | |
#108874 | extirpated | |
#275665 | absentminded |
How to use missing in a sentence?
I chose early on to accept the loss of my leg. It wasn’t going to grow back, so, I had two choices.I either had to accept it or I could live in that constant state of ‘why me?’ And at Walter Reed (Army Medical Center), you know, I looked around and there were so many that were worse off than I was…missing two, three, four limbs – traumatic brain injuries or eyesight.So, I really felt that I was extremely lucky.
Nearly all the military equipment, which stood close to the building without the slightest sign of camouflage, was also destroyed, there are still no final figures on the number of casualties, as many people are still missing.
Of course there may be inconveniences such as missing opportunities to hold bilateral meetings, but that won't undermine the importance of Davos.
We came really close to missing it entirely, its too faint to see in a single Hubble [exposure].
A forgotten past is a past that is yet to be. A forgotten history is a memory missing from our collective conscience. An incomplete history is like an incomplete mind that has forgotten who it is and where it came from.
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