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missing
CIDE DICTIONARY
Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; lacking; wanting; not present when called or looked for. [1913 Webster]
"Neither was there aught missing unto them." [1913 Webster]
"For a time caught up to God, as once
Moses was in the mount, and missing long." [1913 Webster]
Moses was in the mount, and missing long." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
missing, adj.
1 not in its place; lost.
2 (of a person) not yet traced or confirmed as alive but not known to be dead.
3 not present.
1 not in its place; lost.
2 (of a person) not yet traced or confirmed as alive but not known to be dead.
3 not present.
Idiom
missing link
1 a thing lacking to complete a series.
2 a hypothetical intermediate type, esp. between humans and apes.
1 a thing lacking to complete a series.
2 a hypothetical intermediate type, esp. between humans and apes.
THESAURUS
missing
absconded, absent, arrested, away, bankrupt in, bare of, bereft of, callow, defective, deficient, deleted, denuded of, departed, deprived of, destitute of, devoid, devoid of, disappeared, embryonic, empty of, existless, extinct, failing, for want of, forlorn of, gone, gone away, hypoplastic, immature, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in default of, in short supply, in want of, inadequate, incomplete, infant, lacking, lost, lost to sight, lost to view, minus, needing, negative, no longer present, no more, nonattendant, nonexistent, not found, not present, null, omitted, out of, out of pocket, out of sight, part, partial, past and gone, patchy, scant, scant of, scanty, scrappy, short, short of, shy, shy of, sketchy, subtracted, taken away, unblessed with, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unexisting, unpossessed of, vacuous, vanished, void, void of, wanting, without beingROGET THESAURUS
missing
Inexistence
N inexistence, nonexistence, nonsubsistence, nonentity, nil, negativeness, nullity, nihility, nihilism, tabula rasa, blank, abeyance, absence, no such thing, nonbeing, nothingness, oblivion, annihilation, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, Nirvana, obliteration, inexistent, nonexistent, negative, blank, missing, omitted, absent, insubstantial, shadowy, spectral, visionary, unreal, potential, virtual, baseless, in nubibus, unsubstantial, vain, unborn, uncreated, unbegotten, unconceived, unproduced, unmade, perished, annihilated extinct, exhausted, gone, lost, vanished, departed, gone with the wind, defunct, fabulous, ideal, supposititious &c, negatively, virtually, non ens.Absence
N absence, inexistence, nonresidence, absenteeism, nonattendance, alibi, emptiness, void, vacuum, vacuity, vacancy, tabula rasa, exemption, hiatus, lipotype, truant, absentee, nobody, nobody present, nobody on earth, not a soul, ame qui vive, absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home, missing, lost, wanting, omitted, nowhere to be found, inexistence, empty, void, vacant, vacuous, untenanted, unoccupied, uninhabited, tenantless, barren, sterile, desert, deserted, devoid, uninhabitable, without, minus, nowhere, elsewhere, neither here nor there, in default of, sans, behind one's back, the bird has flown, non est inventus, absence makes the heart grow fonder, absent in body but present in spirit, absento nemo ne nocuisse velit, Achilles absent was Achilles still, aux absents les os, briller par son absence, conspicuous by his absence, in the hope to meet shortly again and make our abs.Disappearance
N disappearance, evanescence, eclipse, occultation, departure, exit, vanishing point, dissolving views, disappearing, evanescent, missing, lost, lost to sight, lost to view, gone, Int, vanish!, disappear!, avaunt!, get lost!, get out of here.For further exploring for "missing" in Webster Dictionary Online