missing
Gone without trace
Missing describes something or someone absent from where they should be.
A missing person cannot be located.
Missing pages have been removed or lost from a document.
A missing ingredient is one you need but don't have.
The word implies incompleteness—something that should be present isn't: What's missing from this picture?
To go missing is to disappear, especially under unexplained circumstances.
No longer present
- vanishedDisappeared from sight
- disappearedCeased to exist visibly
- nowhereNot at any place
- unseenNot perceived visually
unaccounted · unavailable · away · out · lacking · wanting · not present · undetected
Unfilled space between
- holeAbsence in matter
- blankWithout marks or content
- omissionFailure to include
- lackingBeing without something
deficient · incomplete · shortfall · void · absence · deficit · lacuna · oversight
Put in wrong location
- lostUnable to navigate
- gone astrayLost from proper course
- displacedShifted from proper location
- forgottenNo longer recalled
left behind · dropped · fallen · slipped away · unlocated · somewhere · vanished · wayward
Ceased to exist visibly
- vanishedDisappeared from sight
- abductedTaken by force
- kidnappedTaken captive illegally
- runawayOne who flees
search party · poster · amber alert · investigation · case · unsolved · whereabouts · last seen
Intense prolonged craving
- piningAching with prolonged desire
- achingExperiencing dull pain
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- homesickLonging for one's dwelling
wistful · nostalgic · bittersweet · heartache · reminiscent · sentimental · melancholy · memories
gone
No longer present
- vanishedDisappeared from sight
- disappearedCeased to exist visibly
- nowhereNot at any place
unseen · unaccounted · unavailable · away · out · lacking · wanting · not present · undetected · unfound
gap
Unfilled space between
lacking · deficient · incomplete · shortfall · void · absence · deficit · lacuna · oversight · exclusion
misplaced
Put in wrong location
- lostUnable to navigate
- gone astrayLost from proper course
- displacedShifted from proper location
forgotten · left behind · dropped · fallen · slipped away · unlocated · somewhere · vanished · wayward · stray
disappeared
Ceased to exist visibly
runaway · search party · poster · amber alert · investigation · case · unsolved · whereabouts · last seen · reward
yearning
Intense prolonged craving
homesick · wistful · nostalgic · bittersweet · heartache · reminiscent · sentimental · melancholy · memories · loved ones
- absenceabsent, away, gone, lack, vacancy
- incompleteincomplete, unfinished, partial, fragmentary, half-done
- longingyearning, pining, craving, hankering, wishing
- tooth conditionscavity, chipped, cracked, loose, rotten
- whereaboutshere, there, away, home, nearby
- emptinessemptiness, void, vacuum, nothingness, blank
missingpresent
Gift or current moment
here · there · accounted for · on hand · existent
- missing outFailing to partake
- missing linkUndiscovered ancestral connection
- missing personUnlocated person sought by authorities
- missing the pointFailing to understand essence
- missing childYoungster whose whereabouts are unknown
- missing pieceAbsent component needed
dismissing, missing in action, missing persons, missing link, missing person, missing links