Usually means: Fail to understand the essence.
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  1. miss the point: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. miss the point: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. miss the point: Wiktionary

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  1. miss the point: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (miss the point)

▸ verb:  To fail to grasp the meaning of an utterance or situation.

Similar:
miss someone's point, miss, misgrasp, miss the mark, miscomprehend, misattend, miscognize, mishear, misken, misapprehend, more...

Opposite:
understand, comprehend, grasp, get

Phrases:
miss the point of, more...

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Similar:
miss someone's point, miss, misgrasp, miss the mark, miscomprehend, misattend, miscognize, mishear, misken, misapprehend, more...

Opposite:
understand, comprehend, grasp, get

Phrases:
miss the point of, more...



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