Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun missive
1 sense of missive
Sense 1
letter, missive -- (a written message addressed to a person or organization; "mailed an indignant letter to the editor")
=> text, textual matter -- (the words of something written; "there were more than a thousand words of text"; "they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech"; "he wants to reconstruct the original text")
=> document -- (anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks)