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MISSED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not caught with the senses or the mind
Example:
words lost in the din
Synonyms:
lost; missed
Classified under:
Similar:
incomprehensible; uncomprehensible (difficult to understand)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb miss
Context examples:
Other packets had missed me, and I had received none for a long time.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
They were off Saturday night about twelve, as is conjectured, but were not missed till yesterday morning at eight.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I knew you were busy about your own affairs, but we rather missed you, Father and Mother especially.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
At the mouth of the Tahkeena, one night after supper, Dub turned up a snowshoe rabbit, blundered it, and missed.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Ah, Jim, Jim, I reckon I've missed stays!
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
If I am missed, it will appear.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She will be missed every moment.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
However, if rings are temporary, perhaps we just missed out on seeing giant ring systems of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, which have only thin ringlets today!
(Saturn is Losing Its Rings, NASA)
Elinor was pleased that he had called; and still more pleased that she had missed him.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The diagnosis can be missed because of the absence of monoclonal immunoglobulin in the serum or urine.
(Non-Secretory Myeloma, NCI Thesaurus)
