Synonyms for miss
Another word for miss is girl, young woman or young lady. Below are 16 synonyms and 30 related words across 11 senses, with antonyms.
Also searched as: misses.
1. noun: a young female
- girl synonyms
- young woman
- young lady
- missy synonyms
- fille
2. noun: a failure to hit (or meet or find etc.)
- misfire
3. verb: fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
- lose synonyms
4. verb: feel or suffer from the lack of
5. verb: fail to attend an event or activity
Antonyms
- attend synonyms
6. verb: leave undone or leave out
- leave out synonyms
- drop synonyms
- neglect synonyms
- overlook synonyms
- omit synonyms
- pretermit
- overleap
7. verb: fail to reach or get to
8. verb: be without
- lack synonyms
Antonyms
- have synonyms
9. verb: fail to reach
Antonyms
10. verb: be absent
11. verb: fail to experience
- escape synonyms
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- woman synonyms
- party girl
- working girl synonyms
- young girl
- shop girl
- ring girl
- bird synonyms
- valley girl
- adult female
- serving girl
- sex bomb
- flower girl
- mill-girl
- chick synonyms
- servant girl
- failure synonyms
- move synonyms
- act synonyms
- desire synonyms
- regret synonyms
- cut synonyms
- fail synonyms
- skip synonyms
- forget synonyms
- pass over synonyms
- jump synonyms
- skip over
- go wrong
- miscarry
- exclude synonyms
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Questions people ask
What is another word for miss?
You can say girl, young woman, young lady, missy or fille instead of miss. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "a young female".
What is the opposite of miss?
The opposite of miss is attend, have or hit.
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