Miss definition

Miss as a verb

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

   "I missed that remark"

   Same sense: lose

2. feel or suffer from the lack of

   "He misses his mother"

3. fail to attend an event or activity

   "I missed the concert"

4. leave undone or leave out

   "How could I miss that typo?"

   Same sense: leave out, drop, neglect, overlook, omit, overleap, pretermit

5. fail to reach or get to

   "She missed her train"

6. be without

   "There is something missing in my jewelry box!"

   Same sense: lack

7. fail to reach

   "The arrow missed the target"

8. be absent

   "The child had been missing for a week"

9. fail to experience

   "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"

   Same sense: escape

Miss as a noun

10. a young female

    Same sense: girl, young woman, young lady, missy, fille

11. a failure to hit (or meet or find etc.)

    Same sense: misfire

Synonyms and antonyms

• lose
• leave out
• drop
• neglect
• overlook
• omit
• overleap
• pretermit
• lack
• escape
• girl definition
• young woman
• young lady
• missy
• fille
• misfire

Opposites: attend, have, hit.

All synonyms of miss, sense by sense

How to say miss

Miss has 1 syllable and rhymes with this. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Words that rhyme with miss

• this
• kiss
• swiss
• piss
• dismiss
• bliss
• dis
• kris
• sis
• mis
• vis
• abyss

All 22 words that rhyme with miss

MISS in word games

Scrabble

6

Words With Friends

7

Anagrams

2

Is MISS a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check MISS in the word checker, or unscramble MISS to see its 2 anagrams and the shorter words in its letters.