Definition of miss

"miss" in the noun sense

1. girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman, fille

a young female

"a young lady of 18"

2. miss, misfire

a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)

3. Miss

a form of address for an unmarried woman

"miss" in the verb sense

1. miss, lose

fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind

"I missed that remark"

"She missed his point"

"We lost part of what he said"

2. miss

feel or suffer from the lack of

"He misses his mother"

3. miss

fail to attend an event or activity

"I missed the concert"

"He missed school for a week"

4. neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out, overlook, overleap

leave undone or leave out

"How could I miss that typo?"

"The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"

5. miss

fail to reach or get to

"She missed her train"

6. miss, lack

be without

"This soup lacks salt"

"There is something missing in my jewelry box!"

7. miss

fail to reach

"The arrow missed the target"

8. miss

be absent

"The child had been missing for a week"

9. miss, escape

fail to experience

"Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"

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Quotations for miss

To miss the mark.

A good marksman may miss. [ Proverb ]

Art may err, but nature cannot miss. [ Dryden ]

In form so delicate, so soft his skin.
So fair in feature, and so smooth his chin.
Quite to unman him nothing wants but this;
Put him in coats, and he's a very miss. [ Horace ]

It is easier to miss, than to hit a needle's eye. [ Proverb ]

You plough with an ox that will not miss a furrow. [ Proverb ]

The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity. [ Philarète Chasles ]

And let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [ Izaak Walton ]

One man may as much miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. [ Proverb ]

What is failure except feebleness?
And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly? [ Ouida ]

If a louse miss its footing on his coat, it will be sure to break its neck. [ Proverb ]

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne. [ Landor ]

So, with decorum all things carried, Miss frowned, and blushed, and then was married. [ Goldsmith ]

Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time. [ Wordsworth ]

A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

You will never miss the right way if you only act according to your feelings and conscience. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Rigour pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good; as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

He will shoot higher that shoots at the moon, than he that shoots at a dunghill, though he miss the mark. [ Proverb ]

Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best, may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all, will never hit it. [ Owen Feltham ]

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and seasonably applied; but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. [ Cervantes ]

Miss Edgeworth and Mme. de Stael have proved that there is no sex in style; and Mme. la Roche Jacqueline, and the Duchesse d'Angouleme have proved that there is no sex in courage. [ Colton ]

Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not deserving it; others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it,, or have it not equal to their deserts. [ Milton ]

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable. Let us begin where she begins, go her pace, and close always where she ends, and we cannot miss of being good naturalists. [ William Penn ]

Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions. [ Feltham ]

miss in Scrabble®

The word miss is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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miss in Words With Friends™

The word miss is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Words within the letters of miss

2 letter words in miss (2 words)

3 letter words in miss (2 words)

4 letter words in miss (Anagrams) (2 words)

Words containing the sequence miss

Words with miss in them (176 words)

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Words that end with miss (5 words)

Word Growth involving miss

Shorter words in miss

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Longer words containing miss

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