Entry Word: missing

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 no longer possessed <the missing socks turned up in the dogʼs special hiding place> — see lost
2 not present or in evidence <any sense of how real people talk and act is missing from this novel> — see absent 2
3 not at a certain place <our church organist is missing this morning, so weʼll have to sing without her accompaniment> — see absent 1