Word.ws English Dictionary

missing the point

missing the point is the present participle and gerund of miss the point.

Meaning of miss the point

Verb

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

  1. To fail to grasp the meaning of an utterance or situation.
    • You're supposed to dip the bread in the soup. Eating them separately is missing the point of the meal.

Questions about missing the point

What is missing the point the present participle and gerund of?
Missing the point is the present participle and gerund of miss the point.

Words near missing the point in the dictionary

  1. missing the boat
  2. missing the bus
  3. missing the forest for the trees
  4. missing the mark
  5. missing the memo
  6. missing the point
  7. missing the wood for the trees
  8. missing the woods for the trees
  9. missing time
  10. missing times
  11. missing trader fraud

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: missing the point (page history and authors); miss the point (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “missing the point.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/missing_the_point. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.