Miss

Verb

 * 1)  To fail to hit.
 * I missed the target.
 * 1)  To feel the absence of someone or something, sometimes with regret.
 * I miss you!
 * 1)  To fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception.
 * miss the joke
 * 1)  To fail to attend.
 * Joe missed the meeting this morning.
 * 1)  To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline etc).
 * I missed the plane!

Antonyms

 * hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with
 * have, feature

Derived terms

 * hit-and-miss
 * miss a trick
 * miss the mark
 * miss the point
 * miss the boat
 * miss fire, misfire
 * miss out
 * near miss

Noun

 * 1) A failure to hit.
 * 2) A failure to obtain or accomplish.
 * 3) An act of avoidance.
 * I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.

Noun

 * 1) A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
 * You may sit here, miss.
 * You may sit here, Miss Jones.
 * 1) An unmarried woman; a girl.

Related terms

 * Miss
 * missis, missus
 * missy
 * Mrs.
 * Ms.

Adverbs for Miss
accidentally; coincidentally; seriously; narrowly; dreadfully; tragically; unavoidably; preventably.

Thesaurus 1
abandon, avoid, babe, baby, bachelor girl, be bereaved of, be blind to, be caught out, be inattentive, be unwary, bird, blink at, blunder, broad, bungle, chick, clerical error, coed, colleen, come short, connive at, corrigendum, cut, cutie, dame, damoiselle, damsel, default, demoiselle, discount, disregard, dodge, doll, drop, err, erratum, error, escape, evade, fail, failure, fall down, fall short, fault, faute, filly, foozle, forfeit, forget, forgo, frail, gal, girl, girlie, give no heed, go amiss, go astray, go astray from, goldbrick, goof, goof off, groupie, hear nothing, heifer, hoyden, human error, ignore, incur loss, jeune fille, jill, jump, junior miss, kiss good-bye, lack, lass, lassie, leave, leave loose ends, leave out, leave undone, let alone, let be, let dangle, let go, let pass, let slip, little missy, long for, lose, lose out, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, make light of, malinger, misapprehend, misapprehension, miscalculation, miscarriage, miscarry, misconceive, misconception, misconstrue, miscount, misdeal, misexplain, misfire, misidentification, misinterpret, misjudgment, mislay, misplace, misplay, misprint, misquotation, misread, misreport, miss out, miss stays, miss the boat, miss the mark, misstatement, missy, mistake, mistranslate, misunderstand, misunderstanding, misuse, near-miss, need, not attend, not bear inspection, not hack it, not heed, not listen, not make it, not measure up, not notice, not pass muster, not qualify, nymph, nymphet, old maid, omission, omit, overlook, oversight, pass, pass by, pass over, pass up, pay no attention, pay no mind, piece, pine for, pretermit, procrastinate, require, romp, run short of, sacrifice, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, see nothing, shirk, skip, skirt, slack, slight, slip, slip up, slipup, spinster, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, suffer loss, teenager, teenybopper, think little of, tomato, tomboy, trifle, typo, typographical error, undergo privation, virgin, wander from, want, wench, wink at, wish for, yearn for, young creature, young thing

Thesaurus 2
Frau, Fraulein, Mistress, Mlle, Mme, Mmes, dame, dona, donna, lady, madam, madame, mademoiselle, mem-sahib, mesdames, senhora, senhorita, signora, signorina, vrouw

Etymology 1
From missan:.

Etymology 2
From mistress:.

Verb

 * Arabic: أخطأ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 未擊中, 未击中, 未打中, 未達到, 未达到,, , 錯過, 错过,
 * Czech:, netrefit
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: (slang),
 * French: ,
 * German: verfehlen
 * Greek: αστοχώ (astokho)
 * Hungarian: eltéveszt,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 当てそこなう, 取り損なう, しそこなう


 * Korean: 놓치다 (nochida)
 * Latin: desum
 * Luxembourgish: verfeelen
 * Polish: spudłować
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: попасть, промахнуться,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: zgrešiti
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish: ıskalamak


 * Arabic: افتقد, اشتاق
 * Egyptian Arabic: ,
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: trobar a faltar, enyorar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 思念, 盼念
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:, sich sehnen
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: התגעגע
 * Hungarian:, nélkülöz


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 憧れる, 恋い慕う
 * Latin: desum, egeo, careo
 * Latvian: trūkt
 * Luxembourgish: vermëssen
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: sentir falta de, sentir saudades de
 * Russian: недоставать,, тосковать
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: คิดถึง
 * Turkish:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch:,    ,
 * Finnish:,   (not to understand)
 * Portuguese:,   (not to understand)


 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:,  (slang)
 * German:
 * Hungarian: elmulaszt,
 * Italian:


 * Luxembourgish: verpassen
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: faltar
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: χάνω (khano)
 * Hungarian: lekésik
 * Kurdish:
 * Polish: spóźnić się


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: упустить,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:

Noun

 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ohilaukaus, ohiheitto
 * Greek: αστοχία (astokhia)


 * Polish:
 * Russian: промах
 * Swedish: ,


 * Dutch: mislukking
 * Finnish:


 * Russian: неудача,
 * Swedish:


 * Russian:

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: juffrouw
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:, Greek:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: ógbhean


 * Italian:
 * Korean: 아가씨
 * Norwegian: frøken
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, барышня, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: maighdeann
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * isms
 * sims, Sims, SIMS

Noun

 * 1) A winner of a beauty contest.
 * Annelien Coorevits was Miss België in 2007.
 * Annelien Coorevits was Miss Belgium in 2007.
 * 1) A beauty.
 * 2) A girl with a high self-esteem.
 * Dat is nogal een miss, hoor.
 * She has some air.

Verb

 * 1) second-person singular imperative form of messen

Noun

 * 1) loss; absence

Etymology
. Akin to missan "to miss"

Noun

 * 1) A failure to hit.
 * 2) A mistake.
 * 3)  A beauty; a winner of a beauty contest.
 * Miss Hawaii went on to win the Miss America contest

Synonyms

 * bom
 * misstag
 * skönhetsmiss