dictionary definitions for "missed"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  missed
      adj : not caught with the senses or the mind; "words lost in the
            din" [syn: lost]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Miss \Miss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Missed (m[i^]st); p. pr. &
     vb. n. Missing.] [AS. missan; akin to D. & G. missen, OHG.
     missan, Icel. missa, Sw. mista, Dan. miste. [root]100. See
     Mis-, pref.]
     1. To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing,
        hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss
        the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting
        knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said.
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              When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will
              acknowledge he judged not right.      --Locke.
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     2. To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to
        dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.
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              She would never miss, one day,
              A walk so fine, a sight so gay.       --Prior.
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              We cannot miss him; he does make our fire,
              Fetch in our wood.                    --Shak.
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     3. To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want
        of; to mourn the loss of; to want; as, to miss an absent
        loved one. --Shak.
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              Neither missed we anything . . . Nothing was missed
              of all that pertained unto him.       --1 Sam. xxv.
                                                    15, 21.
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              What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss.
                                                    --Milton.
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     To miss stays. (Naut.) See under Stay.
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