miss

Meaning

Verb

1. To fail to hit.
2. To fail to achieve or attain.
3. To avoid; to escape.
4. To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret.
5. To fail to understand;
6. To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
7. To fail to attend.
8. To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
9. To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.
10. (slang) To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.
11. To fail to help the hand of a player.
12. To fail to score (a goal).
13. (obsolete) To go wrong; to err.
14. (obsolete) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

Noun

1. A failure to hit.
2. A failure to obtain or accomplish.
3. An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give)
4. The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
5. (obsolete) Error, fault; misdeed, wrongdoing, sin.
6. (obsolete) Hurt or harm from a mistake or accident.
7. (obsolete) Loss, lack want; hence, the feeling of loss.

Noun

1. A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
2. A term of address by a student for a female teacher.
3. An unmarried woman; a girl.
4. A kept woman; a mistress.
5. 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.

Concepts

miss

long for

lose

overlook

omit

yearn for

yearn

lack

leave out

fail

girl

skip

let slip

escape

long

make a mistake

avoid

misfire

nostalgia

young lady

err

pine for

think of

regret

slip

fail to hit

remember

mistake

need

pine

failure

blunder

lassie

maid

fall

desire

drop

pretermit

fille

missy

madam

missing

homesick

Miss

lose out

lose sight of

forget

adore

love dearly

deviate

recall

damsel

lass

maiden

regard

leave a space

refrain from

miscarry

pass

neglect

overleap

young woman

mishit

mislay

wrong

little girl

behave in a stupid manner

stray from the path

be homesick

omission

pass over

throw away

daughter

woman

longing

be short

failing

languish

want

ignore

fail to do

late

let through

hit

Mr.

Mrs.

await

be sorry

missed

fail to notice

be excessive

fail to hear

leave at large

let go by

let pass

oversight

fail to catch

fail to capitalise

fail to capitalize

slip-up

make mistake

consider

realize

think about

fail to

not get a chance to

absent

mournfulness

ruefulness

go astray

be attached to

mourn

can not catch

elude

fall to seize

consideration

be in error

be incorrect

be inexact

abort

notice the absence

remember with regret

loss

not know

miss the mark

miskick

girlfriend

rainbow

atone

shoot and miss

alienate

estrange

suffer

misuse

waste

ask about

visit

drop through

emboss

fall down

fall through

overreach oneself

wash up

senorita

cut out

elide

miss out

crave

make bad

spoil

wreck

beloved

dear

sin

do without

be missing

envy

worry

bust

fizzle

naught

ache

hanker

hunger

blow over

clear

fluff

Fraulein

damoiselle

damosel

damozel

demoiselle

ponce

dame

do

eschew

evade

fend off

forbear

keep off

parry

shirk

shun

skate over

stand back

stay away

beware

cut

grieve

allow to escape

reach

feel lonely

cherish

dote

honor

honour

praise

worship

flop

flunk

founder

unsuccessful

be come arrive late

erroneous

error

false

fault

flaw

own

slip over

bear in mind

recollect

see

mrs

love

homesick for

restless for

skip over

go awry

break down

go wrong

malfunction

not see

be in time

come in time

come too late

fallout

unable to do

believe

figure

suppose

think

wish

unmarried woman

glance off

slip out

thought

baby girl

batrachian

colleen

emancipatrix

gal

girlie

guardienne

salientian

translatrix

wife

ignorant

incapable

miss a target

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mɪs/

Etymology

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 *meytH- (“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 and Icelandic missa (“to lose”).