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The Meaning of miss

  • (n.) A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
  • (n.) A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
  • (n.) A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said.
  • (v. t.) To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.
  • (v. t.) To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.
  • (v. i.) To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
  • (v. i.) To fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with of.
  • (v. i.) To go wrong; to err.
  • (v. i.) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
  • (n.) The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
  • (n.) Loss; want; felt absence.
  • (n.) Mistake; error; fault.
  • (n.) Harm from mistake.

Synonyms

lady friend , missy , fille , young woman , young lady , girl , female child , girlfriend , daughter , little girl , misfire , dud , mislay , turn a loss , fall behind , misplace , lose , omit , overlook , fall back , lack , overleap , suffer , drop , leave out , neglect , recede , drop off , pretermit , escape , unload , dribble , drip , vault , send packing , dismiss , drop down , sink , fail , dominate , fell , degenerate , deteriorate , look out over , leave off , ignore , throw , cast , cut down , put down , take out , devolve , expend , exclude , dangle , send away , set down , flatten , look across , swing , cast off , strike down , throw off , overtop , command , except , shake off , discharge , spend , knock off , look out on , throw away , disregard , shed , get away , scat , break away , run away , bunk , get out , break loose , get off , take to the woods , scarper , fly the coop , turn tail , run , head for the hills , elude , hightail it , get by , lam

Antonyms

collide with , run into , attend , go to , impinge on , have , strike , feature , hit

Homophones

mis , mise

Rhymes

abyss , alusuisse , amiss , biosis , bis , biss , bliss , brys , buice , chris , chriss , cris , criss , dis , dismiss , diss , fis , fiss , flis , fliss , furniss , hiss , kis , kiss , kniss , kris , liss , marsalis , mis , perlis , phariss , piss , pris , reminisce , remiss , resists , riss , risse , rys , sis , suisse , swiss , this , twiss , vis , wis , wiss , wyss