Synonyms Dictionary
2. weapon, tomahawk, hatchet, ax; dart, Mil. flechette, arrow, Fr. fltche, boomerang; lance, spear, harpoon, javelin, pike, assegai. missing, adj. lacking, minus, wanting, absent, not here; lost, gone, nowhere to be found; misplaced, mislaid, mislocated, displaced, dislocated, mission, n. 1. business errand, assignment, commission; aim, goal, purpose, objective, object; charge, trust, duty, task; job, chore, work, stint; office, appointment.
2. vocation, calling, profession, occupation, employment, position; metier, trade, line; pursuit, venture, undertaking, activity; concern, affair, interest.
3. embassy, legation; delegation, deputation; (all collectively) ambassadors, diplomats, envoys, legates, agents, commissioners, deputies, delegates, emissaries. missionary, n. 1. evangelist, proselytizer, propagandist, spreader of the faith or the Word, minister of the Gospel, preacher, padre, missioner; revivalist, faith healer; apostle, pioneer; colporteur; clergyman, cleric, priest, minister. .
2. crusader, campaigner, promoter, Inf. pusher, advocate, supporter, champion, defender, apologist, missish, adj. prim, proper, prudish, modest, demure, decorous, sedate; strait-laced, SI. straight, puritanical, austere, strict, rigid, priggish, stiff, formal; unnatural, affected, mannered, Fr. mantert; fastidious, difficult, hard to please, overparticular, particular, fussy, finical, finicky, picky, missive, n. letter, dispatch, telegram, written message, communication; epistle, Obs. billet, note, line, bulletin; answer, reply, acknowledgment, bread-and-butter note, thank-you note; business letter, form letter, drop letter; love letter, billet-doux, Inf. mash note, fan letter; card, Christmas card, postcard, picture postcard; open letter, Rom. Cath. Ch. encyclical; (all collectively) mail, post, correspondence. misspend, v. squander, waste, dissipate, throw away, throw good money after bad, pour down the drain; lavish, hang the expense, SI. blow; throw money around, play the profligate or prodigal, spend money like water, spend like a drunken sailor, spend money as if it grew on the trees, spend money as if it were going out of style. misstate, v. misquote, quote out of context, miscite, misreport, misrelate; misrepresent, belie, falsify, put in a false light; garble, distort, pervert, twist, warp, slant, color, miscolor, give a false coloring to. misstatement, n. misquotation, miscitation, misreport, misrendering, mistranslation, misinterpretation; misconstruction, misrepresentation, coloring, false coloring, perversion, distortion; lie, untruth, falsehood, falsification; mistake, error, faux pas, gaffe, solecism, blunder, slip of the tongue, Latin, lapsus linguae, SI. boner, SI. blooper, SI. howler, misstep, n. trip, stumble, false step, wrong step, bad move, wrong move, false move; faux pas, gaffe, social blunder or indiscretion, indiscretion, slip in conduct, mistake in conduct or etiquette or propriety, breach of etiquette or manners; transgression, dereliction, misconduct, misdeed; offense, peccadillo, oversight, omission, miss; leak, slip, lapse, lapsus; mistake, error, blunder, botch, bungle, Inf. slip-up; All SI. boner, boo-boo, goof, boot, bobble, blooper, dumb trick, fool mistake, screw-up, foul-up, louse-up. mist, n. 1. cloud, vapor, haze, gauze, film; fog, brume, Inf. pea soup; smog.
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