The antonyms for "missing the point" could be "understanding," "comprehending," "grasping," or "getting the gist." These words reflect a clear understanding of the message being conveyed, something that is lacking in the case of "missing the point." Other antonyms could be "attentive," "perceptive," "sharp," or "observant," which carry connotations of being aware and attentive to what is being said. Being able to understand and grasp the point of a message is a vital communication skill, and using these antonyms can help convey that you have this ability.

What are the antonyms for Missing the point?

• v.

  • misconceive
  • clarify
  ,
  • clear up
  ,
  • enlighten
  ,
  • explain
  .
  • misunderstand
  • comprehend
  ,
  • construe
  ,
  • get
  ,
  • grasp
  ,
  • interpret
  ,
  • perceive
  ,
  • succeed
  ,
  • understand
  .

Famous quotes with Missing the point

• I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician.

  Damon Albarn
• I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.

  Diane Wakoski
• It was G.K. Chesterton who trenchantly reminded us that, if one was going to preach, then it was more sensible to expend one's energies on addressing the converted rather than the unconverted. It was the former, after all, that were—and even more so are—in constant danger of missing the point and sliding away from the Faith into some vague sort of syncretistic, gnostic, gobbledegook. Chesterton, as ever, was right and should you think this is just another of his tiresome paradoxes may I urge you to re-read him: his prescience concerning our present situation and, worse, where we are heading is astounding.

  Simon Conway Morris
• There is always a nasty surprise in store for the imperial mind. It is typical of the imperial point of view that it is ignorant of, or blind to, the other. The imperial mind keeps missing the point. It fails to appreciate, for all its benevolence, why it might come under attack, why it might, for instance, be worth a nation's while to rise up against it. The imperial mind has to be shocked out of its daydreams.

  James Fenton
• It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

  Don DeLillo

Synonyms:

scuttlebutt, scuttlebutt.