Lack

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Deficiency or absence: Lack of funding brought the project to a halt.
  • n. A particular deficiency or absence: Owing to a lack of supporters, the reforms did not succeed.
  • v. To be without or in need of: lacked the strength to lift the box.
  • verb-intransitive. To be missing or deficient: We suspected that he was lying, but proof was lacking.
  • verb-intransitive. To be in need of something: She does not lack for friends.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
  • n. A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
  • v. To be without, to need, to require.
  • v. To be short (of or for something).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.
  • n. Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure.
  • v. To blame; to find fault with.
  • v. To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.
  • verb-intransitive. To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc.
  • verb-intransitive. To be in want.
  • interjection. Exclamation of regret or surprise.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Want or deficiency of something requisite or desirable; defect; failure; need.
  • n. Want of presence; a state of being away; absence.
  • n. A want; defect; a blemish; especially, a moral defect; a fault in character.
  • n. A fault committed; an offense; a censurable act.
  • n. Blame; reproach; rebuke; censure.
  • To be wanting or deficient; come short; fail.
  • To be absent or away; be missing.
  • To be in want; suffer need.
  • To be wanting to; fail.
  • To be in want of; stand in need of; want; be without; be destitute of; fail to have or to possess.
  • To suffer the absence of; feel the deprivation of; miss.
  • To blame; reproach; speak in detraction of.
  • To beat. Also lacky.
  • Synonyms Lack, Need, Want. These words have come to overlap each other a good deal by figurative extension, and have considerable variety of peculiar idiomatic use. To lack is primarily and generally to be without, that which is lacked being generally some one thing, and a thing which is desirable, although generally not necessary or very important.
  • To pierce the hull of with shot.
  • See lac.
  • To lacquer; treat with lac.
  • Used in the exclamatory phrase Good lack. See good.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
  • v. be without
  • Antonym
    have    surplus    glut   
    Verb Form
    lacked    lacking    lacks   
    Cross Reference
    fail   
    Hyponym
    exclude    want   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    blame    fault    crime    offense    deficiency    want    need    destitution    failure   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Adak    Black    Braque    Chirac    Jack    Jacques    Lak    Mac    Mack    Macke   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    absence    amount    loss    kind    example    sense    advantage    need    weakness    aspect