MISSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does missed mean? 

• MISSED (adjective)
  The adjective MISSED has 1 sense:

1. not caught with the senses or the mind

  Familiarity information: MISSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not caught with the senses or the mind

Synonyms:

lost; missed

Context example:

words lost in the din

Similar:

incomprehensible; uncomprehensible (difficult to understand)

 Context examples 

EXAMPLE(S): prohibited medication, missed dose of study medication, missed recording data in diary, late visit (for minor deviations).

(Performed Protocol Deviation Subcategory Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

He took the papers to London to sell the secret, intending, no doubt, to have the plans themselves back in the safe next morning before they were missed.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Through my sudden spring they missed a fatal grip, but one of them caught the back of my neck and the other one my face.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This time, having missed the boat, and not being in the same position as in the previous instances, Wolf Larsen was compelled to resort to a different manœuvre.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I wrote again: there was a chance of my first letter having missed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"An unduly long summer," would have been his thought had he thought about it; as it was, he merely missed the snow in a vague, subconscious way.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"I must 'a' missed 'em," he announced.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Well, it was only a paragraph, and all wrong at that, so you have not missed anything.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I would not have missed it for worlds.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is, however, possibly a serious side to the question, for some of the children, indeed all who have been missed at night, have been slightly torn or wounded in the throat.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)