Find
Find verb - To come upon after searching, study, or effort.
Usage example: we finally found the information after searching dozens of Internet sites
Miss
Miss verb - To fail to attend.
How words are described
| good | good find | good miss |
| best | best find | best miss |
| common | common find | common miss |
| critical | critical find | critical miss |
| Other adjectives: plain, poor, massive, big, bad, guaranteed, last. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- At any moment, they might find or miss something important or their cover might be blown.
Source: The Stakeout - Each episode after that one can usually find her in a blink and you miss it scene of her trying to find the parts of said costume throughout the ship.
Source: Once per Episode - In Beetle Bailey, there have been a few occasions when someone is advised on how to find a particular person's tent (or similar) with the phrase, and indeed they couldn't miss it even among a row of tents because it turned out to look very idiosyncratic in the given person's style.
Source: You Can't Miss It
Cite this Source
Miss and Find. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/find/miss
Find & Miss. N.p., 2016. Web. 13 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/find/miss>.
Miss or Find. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/find/miss.
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