miss

Meaning

Verb

1. (ambitransitive, physical) To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc.
2. (ambitransitive, physical) To avoid hitting.
3. (transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.
4. (transitive) To fail to experience, attend, partake, take advantage of, etc.
5. (transitive) To avoid or escape.
6. (transitive) To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret; to feel sadness at the absence of somebody or something.
7. (transitive) To fail to understand.
8. (transitive) To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
9. (transitive) To be too late to connect with or meet something or someone (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
10. (transitive) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present (see also adjectival missing).
11. (slang, transitive) To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.
12. To fail to help the hand of a player.
13. To fail to score (a goal).
14. (intransitive, obsolete) To go wrong; to err.
15. (intransitive, obsolete) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

Noun

1. A failure to physically hit.
2. A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed.
3. An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give).
4. (informal) Someone or something whose loss or absence is felt.
5. The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
6. A foul shot that fails to hit the target ball, where the player has, in the referee's judgement, not made every effort to play a legal shot; in addition to conceding points for the foul, the player can be made to play the shot again.
7. (obsolete) Error, fault; misdeed, wrongdoing, sin.
8. (obsolete) Hurt or harm from a mistake or accident.
9. (obsolete) Loss, lack want; hence, the feeling of loss.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A title of respect for an unmarried woman with or without a name used.
2. (countable, uncountable) A term of address by a student for a female teacher, especially one using their maiden name.
3. (countable, uncountable) An unmarried woman; a girl.
4. (countable, uncountable) A kept woman; a mistress.
5. (countable, uncountable) 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.

Opposite of

catch#Verb

Synonyms

long for

lose

overlook

omit

yearn for

yearn

lack

fail

leave out

girl

👧

escape

let slip

skip

long

misfire

make a mistake

nostalgia

avoid

err

young lady

think of

pine for

mistake

need

fail to hit

slip

regret

remember

pine

missy

missing

maid

madam

homesick

lassie

Miss

fille

blunder

desire

drop

pretermit

failure

fall

mislay

neglect

maiden

lose out

lose sight of

be homesick

miscarry

Translations

manquer

rater

missen

mancare

verpassen

mademoiselle

señorita

signorina

Fräulein

vermissen

verfehlen

echar de menos

fehlen

versäumen

entbehren

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mɪs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: missen

Inherited from Old English: missan

Cognate with Western Frisian: misse

Cognate with Dutch: missen

Cognate with German: missen

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: -

Cognate with Danish: miste

Cognate with Swedish: missa

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk: -

Cognate with Icelandic: missa

Inherited from Middle English: misse

Inherited from Old English: miss

Cognate with Scots: miss

Cognate with Middle High German: misse

Cognate with Icelandic: missir

Cognate with Scots: mis

Cognate with Dutch: mis

Cognate with Middle Low German: misse

In summary

Verb from Middle English missen, from Old English missan (“to miss, escape the notice of a person”), from Proto-West Germanic *missijan, from Proto-Germanic *missijaną (“to miss, go wrong, fail”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to change, exchange, trade”). Cognate with West Frisian misse (“to miss”), Dutch missen (“to miss”), German missen (“to miss”), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish miste (“to lose”), Swedish missa (“to miss”), Norwegian Nynorsk, Icelandic missa (“to lose”) and Latin mittere (“to send, let go”).
Noun from Middle English misse, mis, from Old English miss (“loss, absence”), from Proto-West Germanic *miss, from Proto-Germanic *miss- (“loss”). Cognate with Scots miss (“a loss, want, cause of grief or mourning”), Middle High German misse, mis (“lack, missing, absence”), Icelandic missir (“loss”). Related also to Scots mis (“wrongdoing, sin, guilt”), Dutch mis (“misdeed, wrongdoing, mistake”), Middle Low German misse (“sin, wrong”).

Sentences

Sometimes in life you need to cut people out of your life even if you know you'll miss them .