missing part
What's not there
A missing part is a component that should be present but isn't—in a machine, a kit, or a set: The instructions listed a missing part we never received.
The phrase extends to anything incomplete: a missing part of a story, a missing part of someone's life.
He felt like a missing part of himself had finally been restored.
- gapUnfilled space between
- voidWithout legal effect
- missing linkUndiscovered ancestral connection
- puzzleChallenge testing ingenuity
- pieceA portion or segment
puzzle piece · incomplete · filling in · absence · hole · fragment · lost · left behind · broken · jigsaw · spare · component · lacking · deficient · coming up short · absent · vacancy · empty
wholeness vs. partiality
missing partentirety
The whole of something
complete set · full assembly · totality · finished product · complete package
miss, missed, misses, part, parts, parted, parting, partial, partially