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| Main Entry: | missing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gone, absent |
| Synonyms: | astray, away, lacking, lost, mislaid, misplaced, omitted, removed, short, wanting, AWOL, disappeared, left behind, left out, not present, nowhere to be found, unaccounted for |
| Antonyms: | found, here, present |
| Main Entry: | miss |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fail, make a mistake |
| Synonyms: | blow, blunder, botch, disregard, drop, err, flub*, forget, fumble, ignore, juggle, lose, misfire, mislay, misplace, muff*, neglect, omit, overlook, pass over, skip, slight, slip, trip, be late for, drop the ball, fall flat on face, fall short, let go, let slip, miscarry, overshoot, pass up, trip up, undershoot |
| Antonyms: | get, succeed, do well |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | miss |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | want; feel a loss |
| Synonyms: | crave, desire, long, need, pine, wish, yearn |
| Antonyms: | don't want |
| Main Entry: | gone |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not present, no longer in existence |
| Synonyms: | absent, astray, away, dead, deceased, defunct, departed, displaced, dissipated, done, down the drain*, ended, extinct, finished, lacking, left, lost, missing, moved, over, past, quit, removed, retired, spent, split, transferred, traveling, vanished, withdrawn, AWOL, burned up, consumed, decamped, disappeared, disintegrated, dissolved, dried up, elapsed, flown, no more, nonextant, not a sign of, not here, out the window, passed, run-off, shifted, taken a powder, taken leave, turned to dust |
| Antonyms: | around, current, existing, present, working |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | homesick |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nostalgic |
| Synonyms: | hankering, heartsick, lonely, missing, wistful, yearning, longing for home |
| Main Entry: | lacking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wanting, deficient |
| Synonyms: | can't cut it, coming up short, defective, deprived of, flawed, impaired, inadequate, incomplete, minus, missing, needed, needing, not hacking it, not making it, sans, short, without |
| Antonyms: | abundant, enough, having, profuse, sufficient |
| Main Entry: | nonexistent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictional, not real |
| Synonyms: | absent, airy, baseless, blank, chimerical, dead, defunct, departed, dreamlike, dreamy, empty, ethereal, extinct, flimsy, gone, groundless, hypothetical, illusory, imaginary, imagined, immaterial, insubstantial, legendary, lost, missing, mythical, negative, null, null and void*, shadowy, tenuous, unreal, unsubstantial, vacant, vague, vaporous, void, extinguished, fancied, few and far between, gossamery, hallucinatory, imponderable, passed away, passed on, perished, ungrounded, without foundation |
| Antonyms: | actual, existing, real, true, existent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | omission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something forgotten or excluded |
| Synonyms: | blank, breach, break, cancellation, carelessness, chasm, default, disregard, elimination, exclusion, failing, failure, forgetfulness, gap, hiatus, inadvertence, lack, lacuna, lapse, missing, neglect, overlook, oversight, prohibition, repudiation, skip, slighting, slip, withholding, cutting out, disregardance, elision, excluding, ignoring, inadvertency, leaving out, noninclusion, overlooking, passing over, preclusion, preterition, pretermission |
| Antonyms: | addition, inclusion, insertion, remembrance |
| Main Entry: | omitted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excluded |
| Synonyms: | absent, forgotten, missing, neglected, overlooked, deleted, erased, expunged, left out, precluded |
| Main Entry: | truant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | absent |
| Synonyms: | absent without leave, astray, away, gone, missing, AWOL, cutting class, hooky, no-show, not present, playing hooky, skipping school |
| Main Entry: | wanting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lacking, inadequate |
| Synonyms: | absent, away, bankrupt, bereft, cut off, defective, deficient, destitute, devoid, disappointing, empty, failing, faulty, gone, half-baked*, imperfect, incomplete, inferior, less, minus, missing, needed, omitted, patchy, poor, scanty, scarce, short, shy, sketchy, substandard, unsound, burned out, cooked, deprived, in default, not good enough, not up to par, out of gas, scant, too little too late, unfulfilled |
| Antonyms: | adequate, perfect, satisfactory, sufficient |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mislaid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | misplaced |
| Synonyms: | gone, lost, missing, disappeared, disarranged |
| Main Entry: | omitting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | leaving out |
| Synonyms: | missing, neglecting, slighting, withholding, canceling, discarding, disregarding, excepting, excluding, ignoring, not including, not naming, overlooking, passing over, precluding, repudiating |
| Antonyms: | including, mentioning, inserting |
| Main Entry: | overlooked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | missed |
| Synonyms: | forgotten, missing, neglected, omitted, unnoticed, excluded, left out |
| Main Entry: | absent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not present |
| Synonyms: | astray, away, elsewhere, ghost, gone, missing, removed, vanished, AWOL, hooky, no-show, nobody home |
| Antonyms: | existing, present, attending |
| Main Entry: | absent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deficient in something needed or usual |
| Synonyms: | bare, blank, devoid, empty, hollow, lacking, minus, missing, nonexistent, omitted, unavailable, vacant, vacuous, wanting |
| Antonyms: | sufficient |
| Main Entry: | casualty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | victim |
| Synonyms: | dead, fatality, injured, loss, missing, prey, wounded, death toll, killed, sufferer |
| Main Entry: | blow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ruin chance |
| Synonyms: | fail, flounder, goof*, miss, miscarry |
| Antonyms: | succeed, do well |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | clear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pass over, often by jumping |
| Synonyms: | hurdle, leap, miss, negotiate, surmount, vault, overleap |
| Antonyms: | hit, run into |
| Main Entry: | disregard |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ignore; make light of |
| Synonyms: | brush aside, brush off, contemn, despise, discount, disdain, disobey, disparage, fail, forget, miss, neglect, omit, overlook, overpass, pass over, pooh-pooh*, scorn, slight, snub, blink at, brush away, cold-shoulder*, have no use for, laugh off, leave out of account, let go, let off easy, let pass, live with, look the other way, pay no attention to, pay no heed to, pay no mind, shut eyes to, take no notice of, tune out, turn a blind eye, turn a deaf ear, vilipend, wink at* |
| Notes: | ignore is properly used of things that are present in our surroundings; but for things like rules, conventions, stipulations, contracts, the right word is disregard |
| Antonyms: | attend, esteem, note, regard, respect, pay attention |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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