missingadjective
uk/ˈmɪs.ɪŋ/us/ˈmɪs.ɪŋ/A2 Someone who is missing has disappeared:
Her father has been missing since September 1992.
UK The girl went missing during a family outing to Mount Snowdon.
B1 Something that is missing cannot be found because it is not where it should be:
The burglars have been arrested but the jewellery is still missing.
When did you realize that the money was missing from your account?
Missing soldiers or military vehicles have not returned from fighting in a war but are not known completely certainly to be dead or destroyed:
He was listed as missing in action.
More examples
- The police have called off the search for the missing child until dawn tomorrow.
- The missing letter eventually turned up inside a book.
- A search party was sent out to look for the missing climbers.
- All of the ship's crew are missing, believed dead.
- This jigsaw puzzle has two pieces missing.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Absent
- absence
- absent
- absentee
- AWOL
- be conspicuous by your absence idiom
- conspicuous
- go AWOL idiom
- in absentia
- lacuna
- miss
- missing person
- no-show
- nowhere
- nowhere to be found idiom
- out
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Soldiers & people who fight in wars