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amissing

/əˈmɪsɪŋ/

amissing adjective: missing, lacking.

Adjective

amissing (comparative more amissing, superlative most amissing)

  1. Missing, lacking.
    • Kamal is dead now, but his nephew has taken up the matter, and there will be more horses amissing if the Khaiber Levies do not look to it.1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Dray Wara Yow Dee’, Black and White, volume 1, Folio Society, published 2004, page 369

amissing meaning in Bengali

amissing in Bengali

নিখোঁজ, অনুপস্থিত

Forms of amissing

comparativemore amissing
superlativemost amissing

Origin of amissing

From a misinterpretation of a-missing (a- + missing) as a single word.

Questions about amissing

What does amissing mean?
Amissing means missing, lacking.
What is amissing in Bengali?
Amissing in Bengali is নিখোঁজ, অনুপস্থিত. See Amissing meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is amissing?
Amissing is an adjective.
How do you pronounce amissing?
Amissing is pronounced /əˈmɪsɪŋ/.

Words near amissing in the dictionary

  1. Amissa
  2. amisse
  3. amisses
  4. amissibility
  5. amissible
  6. amissing
  7. amission
  8. amissness
  9. Amistad
  10. Amistads
  11. amisulpride

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Adapted from Wiktionary: amissing (page history and authors); amissing (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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