miss-, -miss, -mis-, -mit, -mitt-

1. Negligent, careless, or slow in performing one's duty, business, etc.: "He's terribly remiss in his work."
2. Careless or negligent about doing something that is expected.
3. Characterized by negligence or carelessness.
4. Lacking force or energy; languid; sluggish.

1. A lessening of the symptoms of a disease, or their temporary reduction or disappearance.
2. A lessening or a reduction in the severity of something: "The afternoon sun beat down without remission."
3. A release from a debt, penalty, or obligation.
4. Pardon or forgiveness.
5. An instance or the action of remitting something.

1. To send or transmit money to pay for merchandise or services, especially by mail.
2. To cancel or hold back from enforcing something; to refrain from exacting (a tax or penalty, for example).
3. To reduce in intensity, or to reduce the intensity of something.
4. To restore something to a previous condition or position.
5. To postpone or defer something.
6. To pardon or to forgive something; such as, a sin or other some transgression.
7. To refer (a case) to another court for further consideration or action.
8. To allow to slacken: "The storm remitted its fury."

1. The sending of money, checks, etc., to a recipient at a distance to pay for merchandise or services.
2. Money or its equivalent sent from one place, or person, to another as payment for merchandise or services.

1. An act or instance of submitting.
2. The condition of having submitted.
3. Submissive conduct or attitude.
4. Something that is submitted, as an application.
5. In law, an agreement between parties involved in a dispute, to abide by the decision of an arbitrator or arbitrators.

1. Inclined or ready to submit; unresistingly or humbly obedient: "submissive servants".
2. Marked by or indicating submission: "a submissive reply".