Missing
Missing adjective - Not present or in evidence.
Usage example: any sense of how real people talk and act is missing from this novel
Wanting is a synonym for missing in property topic. In some cases you can use "Wanting" instead an adjective "Missing", when it comes to topics like absence, gone, lacking. popular alternative
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Wanting to live up to and missing his father is implied to be the reason Iori is so serious and level-headed.
- In "Never Block Cookies", Henry does exactly that-a cute barista at the coffee shop in the office building offers him a cookie for free, and he turns it down, not wanting the cookie, saying she's going to screw up her inventory, and totally missing that she's interested in him.
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Not wanting to explain this to an enemy, McCoy (who Kirk put in charge just before he went missing) instead claims to have killed him in a duel and taken command.
Source: Klingon Promotion
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