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Definition of miss : 1. A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.
2. A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
3. A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
4. Harm from mistake.
5. In the game of three- card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
6. Loss; want; felt absence.
7. Mistake; error; fault.
8. The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
9. To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
10. To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.
11. To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said.
12. To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
13. To fail to obtain, learn, or find; - with of.
14. To go wrong; to err.
15. To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; - now seldom applied to persons.

Synonyms:

escape, get away, play it safe, refrain, grieve, birdie, dear, disregard, madam, missy, menstrual cycle, sonny, leave off, menses, lose out, idle, dominate, mess up, throw, bitch, Alas., booking office, sit by, B.C., engagement, attack, drop, set down, throw off, send packing, ignore, strike down, minus, deadlock, break loose, miss out, bus, damsel, collapse, fall back, misfire, lose, cycle, scat, error, female, mister, misunderstand, assist, AZ, fail, recede, cast, run, break away, overlook, command, hightail it, amenorrhea, exclude, regret, crash, big, flop, girlfriend, spend, languish, elude, cut down, take to the woods, queen bee, shake off, bookable, upset yourself, be unclear about/as to something, lady friend, book on, mislay, Mac, misplace, neglect, stumble, choo-choo, cast off, backfire, young woman, mishap, ma'am, skate over/around, pretermit, dismiss, afloat, evade, cushion, bunny, lass, bother, turn a loss, misinterpret, fille, fall short, demoiselle, little girl, go, look out on, stand by, founder, aboard, miscarry, bomb, maiden, miss the point, menstrual, bury, pass up, discern, deteriorate, AL, have no conception of something, Ariz., aggregate, drip, AR, take out, want for, board, arr., lassie, have a narrow/lucky escape, devoid, Ark., young lady, let nature take its course, drop off, vault, all, turn tail, lam, boo-boo, CA, incomplete, buster, bow-wow, cold, err, concede, identify, cross, menopause, devolve, slip up, head for the hills, deprived, knock off, trip up, ache, except, flatten, omit to do something, sheila &amp, AK, nymph, used, misconstrue, notice, thrive, bang, get someone wrong, provide against, bereft of something, flood, the change of life, aisle seat, lose your grip (on something), unload, foul up, tell, omit, female child, recognize, dangle, deficient, Ala., amenorrhoea, fishwife, scarper, fly the coop, drop down, burn up, slip, chalk something up, dribble, discover, hedge, shed, pick out, get out, waste, throw away, get by, filly, blunder, fell, spot, overtop, booking, dude, leave out, cramps, mistress, put down, observe, daughter, the curse, mourn, detect, biological clock, starved, cut out, fall behind, get down, not have a clue, expend, overleap, minx, take evasive action, bunk, grind, feel sorry for someone, run away, sink, pine, get off, look out over, let down, buddy, dud, degenerate, fizzle, retreat, fire, suffer, swing, abstain, send away, can't bring yourself to do something, girl, New Zealand, look across, discharge, stretched, maid, make no move

err (part of speech: verb)

misjudge, miscalculate, mistake

lack (part of speech: verb)

lack, require, want, need, default

titles (part of speech: noun)

Hon., Judge, dame, the Honorable, Jr., Her/Your Ladyship, Esq., Lady, honorific, Justice

failure (part of speech: noun)

failure, debacle, fiasco, lapse, malfunction, breakdown

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