Missing and Not there

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Missing adjective - No longer possessed.

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Not there and missing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Not there" instead an adjective "Missing".

Nearby Words: miss, mission, missed

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Missing and not there are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Missing" instead an adjective phrase "Not there".

Parodied in the Discworld City Watch books, where Vimes notes how hard it is to find something missing because said thing is, by definition, not there.

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