misses

Meaning of misses

noun
  1. A failure to hit.
  2. A failure to obtain or accomplish.
  3. An act of avoidance (used with the verb give).
    I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.
  4. The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
verb
  1. To fail to hit.
    I missed the target.
  2. To fail to achieve or attain.
    to miss an opportunity
  3. To avoid; to escape.
    The car just missed hitting a passer-by.
  4. To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret.
    I miss you! Come home soon!
  5. To fail to understand; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
    miss the joke
  6. To fail to attend.
    Joe missed the meeting this morning.
  7. To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
    I missed the plane!
  8. To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.
    The car is missing essential features.
  9. (said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player.
    Player A: J7. Player B: Q6. Table: 283. The flop missed both players!
  10. To fail to score (a goal).
  11. To go wrong; to err.
  12. To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
noun
  1. A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
    You may sit here, Miss Jones.
  2. An unmarried woman; a girl.
  3. A kept woman; a mistress.
  4. In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
noun
  1. Wife or girlfriend.
    Harry said he couldn't stop and chat because his missus wanted to go shopping.
  2. Term of address for a woman.

Information about misses

Hyphenation of misses

misses

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • misses is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

misses synonyms

Meaning :

Mrs

misses antonyms

Meaning :

collide, hit, impinge, strike, feature, have

Anagrams of misses

seisms

Words that rhyme with misses

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