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miss oneself

miss oneself verb: to miss an enjoyable experience through not being in the right place at the right time.

Verb

miss oneself (third-person singular simple present misses oneself, present participle missing oneself, simple past and past participle missed oneself)

  1. (UK) To miss an enjoyable experience through not being in the right place at the right time.
    • 'Shelly McCrindle? Did she go with yous?' Finn pursed her lips in surprise. 'Aye, You really missed yourself.'2011, Alan Warner, The Stars in the Bright Sky, →ISBN, page 80
    • Heh Willie, said a conductor, you missed yourself; best Meeting I've ever been at.2012, James Kelman, The Busconductor Hines, →ISBN
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see miss, oneself.
    • If you do not consent to detachment, God will miss his Godhead, and man will miss himself.2011, Slavoj Žižek, John Milbank, Creston Davis, The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?, →ISBN, page 35
    • If sugar turned bitter, he would miss the sweet. And if he someday turned old and mean, he would miss himself.2013, Alan Dean Foster, Carnivores of Light and Darkness, →ISBN

Forms of miss oneself

third-person singular presentmisses oneself
present participlemissing oneself
past participlemissed oneself
pastmissed oneself

Questions about miss oneself

What does miss oneself mean?
Miss oneself means to miss an enjoyable experience through not being in the right place at the right time.
What part of speech is miss oneself?
Miss oneself is a verb.
What is the past tense of miss oneself?
The past tense of miss oneself is missed oneself.

Words near miss oneself in the dictionary

  1. Miss Lucy
  2. Miss Marple
  3. miss off
  4. miss one's guess
  5. miss one's tip
  6. miss oneself
  7. miss out
  8. Miss Piggies
  9. Miss Piggy
  10. Miss Priss
  11. Miss Prisses

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