Missile

Quick meaning: Missile is a noun meaning Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet. [from 17th c.].

Meaning

Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet. [from 17th c.].

More Meanings

1. (military) A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched. [from 20th c.]

Example Sentences

That missile is explosive enough to kill hundreds.

The Rhodians, who used leaden bullets, were able to project their missiles twice as far as the Persian slingers, who used large stones.

Riot officers and police on horseback were deployed to disperse the crowns, but they came under attack from bottles, fireworks and other missiles.

And I saw askant the armies, / I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags, / Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc’d with missiles I saw them, / And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody, / And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,) / And the staffs all splinter’d and broken.

Word Forms

• missiles

Synonyms for missile

Depending on context, synonyms include projectile.

Antonyms for missile

Common opposites include nonmissile.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include projectile, weapon, gunfire, ballistic, launch, truncheon.

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