miss the point

miss the point

English

Alternative forms

• miss someone's point

Pronunciation

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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.

   Do you know what I mean, or are you missing my point?

Translations

fail to grasp the meaning

Chinese: Mandarin: 沒有抓住要點／没有抓住要点 (méiyǒu zhuāzhù yàodiǎn) Finnish: ei käsittää, ei ymmärtää asian ydintä, ei tajuta pointtia (colloquial) Georgian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: please add this translation if you can Spanish: please add this translation if you can Thai: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

References

• “miss the point” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “miss the point” (US) / “miss the point” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “miss the point” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.