English dictionary
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English noun: miss | |||
| 1. | miss (person) a young woman | ||
| Samples | A young lady of 18. | ||
| Synonyms | fille, girl, missy, young lady, young woman | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | adult female, woman | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | babe, baby, belle, bimbo, bird, chachka, chick, chit, colleen, dame, doll, flapper, gal, gamine, Gibson girl, hoyden, jeune fille, lass, lassie, maid, maiden, May queen, mill-girl, party girl, peri, queen of the May, ring girl, romp, rosebud, sex bomb, sex kitten, sexpot, shop girl, sister, skirt, soubrette, sweater girl, tchotchke, tchotchkeleh, tomboy, tsatske, tshatshke, valley girl, wench, working girl, young girl | ||
| 2. | miss (event) a failure to hit (or meet or find etc) | ||
| Synonyms | misfire | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | failure | ||
| 3. | Miss (communication) a form of address for an unmarried woman | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | form of address, title, title of respect | ||
English verb: miss | |||
| 1. | miss (perception) fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind | ||
| Samples | I missed that remark. She missed his point. We lost part of what he said. | ||
| Synonyms | lose | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | overlook | ||
| 2. | miss (emotion) feel or suffer from the lack of | ||
| Samples | He misses his mother. | ||
| Examples | They miss moving | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | desire, want | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | regret | ||
| Entail | regret, repent, rue | ||
| 3. | miss (stative) fail to attend an event or activity | ||
| Samples | I missed the concert. He missed school for a week. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | fail, neglect | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cut, skip | ||
| Antonyms | attend, go to | ||
| 4. | miss (cognition) leave undone or leave out | ||
| Samples | How could I miss that typo?. The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten. | ||
| Synonyms | drop, leave out, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | forget, jump, pass over, skip, skip over | ||
| Antonyms | attend to, take to heart | ||
| 5. | miss (motion) fail to reach or get to | ||
| Samples | She missed her train. | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | fail, go wrong, miscarry | ||
| Entail | go, locomote, move, travel | ||
| 6. | miss (stative) be without | ||
| Samples | This soup lacks salt. There is something missing in my jewelry box!. | ||
| Synonyms | lack | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | exclude, want | ||
| Antonyms | feature, have | ||
| 7. | miss (contact) fail to reach | ||
| Samples | The arrow missed the target. | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s something | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | overshoot, undershoot | ||
| Antonyms | collide with, impinge on, hit, run into, strike | ||
| 8. | miss (stative) be absent | ||
| Samples | The child had been missing for a week. | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s | ||
| 9. | miss (communication) fail to experience | ||
| Samples | Fortunately, I missed the hurricane. | ||
| Synonyms | escape | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | avoid | ||
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