missing 是什么意思？missing 的含义 - 柯林高阶英语学习词典 - 在线工具

1. adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE]

If something is missing, it is not in its usual place, and you cannot find it.

It was only an hour or so later that I discovered that my gun was missing.

The playing cards had gone missing.

Synonyms: lost, misplaced, not present, gone More Synonyms of missing

2. adjective

If a part of something is missing, it has been removed or has come off, and has not been replaced.

Three buttons were missing from his shirt.

3. adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE]

If you say that something is missing, you mean that it has not been included, and you think that it should have been.

What is missing, however, is an internal, artistic cohesion.

She had given me an incomplete list. One name was missing from it.

Synonyms: absent, lacking, left out, not present More Synonyms of missing

4. adjective

Someone who is missing cannot be found, and it is not known whether they are alive or dead.

Five people died in the explosion and more than one thousand were injured. One person is still missing.

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