Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not present; absent.
- adj. Lost: a missing person; soldiers missing in action.
- adj. Lacking; wanting: This book has 12 missing pages.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Want; lack.
- Not present or not found; absent: gone.
- To sing amiss.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of miss.
- adj. Not able to be located; gone; absent; lost.
- adj. To be running roughly due an occasional lack of a spark or other irregular fault
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; lacking; wanting; not present when called or looked for.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. nonexistent.
- adj. not able to be found
Examples
“More than 8,100 remain missing from the Korean War, and 1,779 from Vietnam.”
“With this accounting, 8,025 service members still remain missing from the conflict.”
“Owing to your world-view, you are sensitive to issues like under-representation and rightfully lament what you have witnessed all your life; poor people and more specifically, people of color for the most part are once again missing from the table.”
“More than 220 personnel from Florida alone remain missing from the Vietnam, Korea and Cold”
“The name, inspired by the phrase "missing in action," was revealed on the website of the New York Daily News.”
“The scaly escape artist has been named Mia, inspired by the phrase "missing in action," in an online vote sponsored by the Daily News and the Wildlife Conservation Society.”
“The scaly escape artist has been named Mia, inspired by the phrase "missing in action," in an online vote sponsored by the Daily News and the”
“Henry Kuloba, 27, a lawyer, was among those who said he found his name missing from the rolls in Kampala.”
“The NFL announced the 65 underclassmen who have been declared eligible for the 2012 draft, and there's a name missing from that list that will certainly have people interested: Chris Polk.”
“But Las Vegas voters will find his name missing from Tuesday's primary election ballot.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘missing’.
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
( open list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/macabrephantom, spectral, specter, spectre, spooky, poltergeist, haunt, spirit, banshee, cryptic, shadow, phantasm and 311 more...
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Missing
missing, not present, absent, lost, missing person, missing in action, lacking, wanting, want, lack, not found, gone and 9 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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saddest
what is the saddest word in english
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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punnything's Words
existentialist, configure, numismatist, autumnal, desist, ennui, taciturn, vacillate, naivete, bloodletting, tete-a-tete, concentric and 274 more...
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OM1 Lesson 6
missing, concert, purse, find, key, everywhere, could, embarrassed, envelope, thought, realize, everything and 11 more...
Tweets
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