missing piece
What completes it
The missing piece is whatever element is absent that would complete a whole.
It might be a literal puzzle piece or, more often, something figurative: the missing piece of a mystery, the missing piece needed to finish a project.
When someone finds the missing piece, they've discovered what was lacking to make sense of things or bring them together.
- jigsaw puzzleSegmented image to reassemble
- puzzleChallenge testing ingenuity
- jigsawPuzzle or curve-cutting tool
- gapUnfilled space between
- voidWithout legal effect
incomplete · fragment · lost · hidden · clue · mystery · search · solution · answer · hole · blank · final · last · crucial · key · essential · fell into place · fitting
- jigsaw puzzlespuzzle mat, puzzle board, box lid, wooden puzzle, floor puzzle
- incompleteincomplete, unfinished, partial, fragmentary, half-done
- things soughttreasure, gold, fortune, wealth, riches
- omissionsomission, exclusion, deletion, gap, lack
- puzzlespuzzles, sudoku, jigsaw puzzle, puzzle cube, crossword
- love metaphorsCupid, heart on fire, butterflies, lovesick, swept off feet
missing piececomplete set
All items together
full set · entirety · totality · the whole picture · whole
missing piecefinal answer
Irrevocable submitted response
key insight · smoking gun · known quantity · common knowledge
miss, missed, misses, missing, piece, pieces, pieced, piecing, piecemeal