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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

miss the memo en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To be unaware of the current state of affairs.
    • Nevertheless, Bumble, the dating app which once styled itself as a beacon of women’s empowerment because heterosexual women had to make the first move, appears to have missed the memo. 2024 May 21, Arwa Mahdawi, “Sex-positive feminism had its moment – and now it has been replaced by voluntary celibacy”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2024:
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see miss, memo.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
missed the memo Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
missed the memo Tense=Past lexicographic
misses the memo Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
missing the memo Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Antonyms

get the memo