MISSES Synonyms: 168 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of miss

as in skips

to fail to attend had to miss work for a week because of the flu

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as in misunderstands

to fail to understand the true or actual meaning of I think you're missing the point

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as in fails

to be unsuccessful everyone knows that most of the new television series will miss and be gone before anyone notices

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misses

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noun (1)

plural of miss

as in girls

a female person who has not yet reached adulthood a talented young miss who wants to become a writer

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as in maidens

a young unmarried woman you should ask that young miss if she would like to dance

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misses

3 of 3

noun (2)

plural of miss

as in disasters

something that has failed a television season with far fewer hits than misses

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Recent Examples of misses

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Even for the game’s best kickers, misses happen from time to time, but the concerning part for the Chiefs is that the funk has become a trend. — Pete Sweeney october 26, Kansas City Star, 26 Oct. 2026 FDEs can drive value, but relying just on vendor FDEs alone misses the bigger opportunity. — Rex Lee, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026 An Uber driver who misses a car payment, for example, could lose the ability to earn income if their vehicle is repossessed. — John Csiszar, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2026 The men the data misses Graham’s research on despair keeps returning to people the standard statistics barely capture. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026 Our main national survey on illicit drugs, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, misses many of the people at greatest risk, including those who are homeless or incarcerated. — J. Travis Donahoe, STAT, 23 Oct. 2026 For most apparel programs, the savings disappear fast if the factory misses a set date or quality falls apart. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026 But researchers have questioned that math, expressing concern that such a low threshold misses many people whose iron stores are higher than that but still insufficient. — Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2026 Some observers took that as evidence that high gas prices alone wouldn’t push Americans toward fully electric cars, but that conclusion misses half the story. — John Paul Helveston, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026

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The Valkyries also crashed the offensive boards, rebounding their own misses to give themselves more chances to score. — Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026 These findings suggest formal verification could help uncover defects that routine testing misses. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026 Read on for a look at the taskbar features a previous head of Windows misses, the lowdown on Windows 11’s new Photos experience, and why the latest OS security updates are more important than ever. — Chris Hoffman, PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2026 The kicker made seven of his nine field-goal attempts with the two misses coming from 41 and 51 yards. — Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2026 Harrison Butker missed an extra-point and a 52-yard field goal, a pair of misses that kept the game within technically a two-possession margin. — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 18 Oct. 2026 With such a volume of ever-new dishes, will there be a few misses among the hits? — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2026 Those more specific questions reduced the misses in his test. — Wen Shao, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026 Her camera has recorded all of them, including near-misses like an out-of-control van flying airborne across the grassy divider between the house and Route 30. — Meghan Schiller, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for misses

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The series opens with a quick MCU recap that skips a lot of crucial details to focus on emotion.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026
With her social life in tatters and a world of her anxieties realized, Tae-ju rashly skips town, heading for the tranquil coastal guesthouse of another friend.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of skips

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Ribera insists that this misunderstands the European perspective.

— Justin Worland, Time, 3 Oct. 2026
Imagine a fall-detection system that fails at night, a workplace safety monitor that misses a crucial action or a robot that misunderstands what a person is doing because it’s never seen that exact interaction before.

— Bo Wang, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of misunderstands

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Two teenage girls spent months plotting a mass shooting in Riverside County, officials say.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
The project at Trinity, an all-girls Roman Catholic school, ties into the church’s global initiatives to embrace environmental justice.

— Cam'ron Hardy, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of girls

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Since 2024, the state and federal governments have spent over half a billion dollars on disasters in Ruidoso — nine times the village’s annual budget.

— Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026
These same companies continue to kill the clean energy that is not only cheaper, but try to side-step their glaring responsibility for the increasing cascade of climate disasters.

— Tom Tapp, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of disasters

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When a reef collapses, hard corals disappear and are replaced by algae, rubble and sponges.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
For developers managing a mix of AC and DC loads, Inam says the device collapses a number of machines—including a rectifier, an inverter, backup power and energy management—into a single unit four feet square and 12 feet high.

— Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of collapses

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The feat concludes a pursuit that began in 2009, when Zhang first experimented with riding a motorcycle on water and overcame early failures to achieve his latest goal.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2026
Neeley said the floodwaters were receding but left mud and silt, much of which has been contaminated with sewage because of failures at waste plants.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of failures

Verb

The importance of competition There are three specific reasons why vote buying usually flops.

— Kenneth Greene, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2026
In Bait, Ahmed stars as struggling actor Shah Latif, who flops in his audition to play James Bond and then becomes consumed by the quest to become the first Pakistani 007.

— Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 21 Aug. 2026

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