Missing (Adjective)
Meaning 1
Not able to be found; "missing in action"; "a missing person".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The police were searching for the missing child who had wandered away from her parents at the mall.
- After the battle, several soldiers were reported missing in action and their families were notified.
- The detective was tasked with finding the missing person who had been gone for three days.
- The missing link in the fossil record was finally discovered by a team of paleontologists.
- The missing documents were crucial to the case, and the lawyer was frantically searching for them.