Need another word that means the same as “missing”? Find 13 synonyms and 30 related words for “missing” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Missing” are: absent, lacking, wanting, lost, mislaid, misplaced, not present, gone, gone astray, absent from, not present in, lacking in, wanting from
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “missing” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
absent | Lost in thought; showing preoccupation. She looked up with an absent smile. |
absent from | Not being in a specified place. |
gone | Excellent; inspired. Dreams of foregone times. |
gone astray | Well in the past; former. |
lacking | (of a quality) absent. Adequate resources are sadly lacking. |
lacking in | Inadequate in amount or degree. |
lost | Having lost your bearings confused as to time or place or personal identity. A lost generation. |
mislaid | Lost temporarily; as especially put in an unaccustomed or forgotten place. The mislaid hat turned up eventually. |
misplaced | Lost temporarily; as especially put in an unaccustomed or forgotten place. A telling sign of misplaced priorities. |
not present | Temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration. |
not present in | Being or existing in a specified place. |
wanting | Deficient in intelligence. They weren t wanting in confidence. |
wanting from | Nonexistent. |
abduction | (physiology) moving of a body part away from the central axis of the body. Abductions by armed men in plain clothes. |
absent | Go away or leave. She looked up with an absent smile. |
cramped | Constricted in size. Trying to bring children up in cramped high rise apartments. |
deficiency | Lack of an adequate quantity or number. A budget deficiency of 96 billion. |
deficient | Inadequate in amount or degree. The documentary evidence is deficient. |
furlough | Grant a leave to. A six week furlough in Australia. |
gone | Beyond help; in a hopeless state. A bunch of real gone cats. |
inadequate | (of a person) unable to deal with a situation or with life. A sad solitary inadequate man. |
indigent | A needy person. A charity for the relief of indigent artists. |
insufficient | Not enough; inadequate. There was insufficient evidence to convict him. |
lacking | Inadequate in amount or degree. Lacking in stamina. |
layoff | The act of laying off an employee or a work force. |
leave | Leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking. The ship leaves at midnight. |
lose | Miss from one s possessions lose sight of. She couldn t eat and began to lose weight. |
loss | The disadvantage that results from losing something. Loss of livestock left the rancher bankrupt. |
meager | Deficient in amount or quality or extent. Meager fare. |
minus | Having a negative electric charge. Minus five. |
mislay | Place (something) where one cannot find it again. I seem to have mislaid my car keys. |
miss | Fail to reach. How many periods have you missed. |
presence | The state or fact of existing, occurring, or being present. He sensed the presence of danger. |
scant | Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities. He does not scant his attention to the later writings. |
scanty | Short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural. The women looked cold in their scanty bodices. |
short | Of a vowel categorized as short with regard to quality and length e g in standard British English the vowel in good is short as distinct from the long vowel u in food. Food is short. |
substandard | Falling short of some prescribed norm. Substandard housing. |
truant | Of a pupil being a truant. Her truant husband. |
undermanned | Inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc. |
undersized | Of less than the usual size. The undersized cubs may not survive the winter. |
unequal | A person or thing regarded as unequal to another in status or level. Unequal odds. |
unsatisfactory | Not giving satisfaction. Her performance proved to be unsatisfactory. |
wanting | Nonexistent. The English batting technique has been found wanting. |
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