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Definitions for Lack

[1] deficiency or absence of something needed, desirable, or customary: lack of money; lack of skill.
[2] something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.
[3] to be without or deficient in: to lack ability; to lack the necessities of life.
[4] to fall short in respect of: He lacks three votes to win.
[5] to be absent or missing, as something needed or desirable: Three votes are lacking to make a majority.
[6] lack in , to be short of or deficient in: What he lacks in brains, he makes up for in brawn.
[7] an insufficiency, shortage, or absence of something required or desired
[8] something that is required but is absent or in short supply
[9] (when intr, often foll by in or for ) to be deficient (in) or have need (of) to lack purpose

Words related to Lack

loss, shortfall, inadequacy, reduction, dearth, paucity, absence, poverty, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, need, require, want, distress, privation, defect, decrease, meagerness, shrinking

Words nearby Lack

lachrymose, lachute, lacing, lacinia, laciniate, lack, lackadaisical, lackaday, lackawanna, lacker, lackey

Origin of Lack

1125–75; Middle English lak; cognate with Middle Low German lak, Middle Dutch lac deficiency; akin to Old Norse lakr deficient

Word origin for Lack

C12: related to Middle Dutch laken to be wanting

Synonyms for Lack

absence, dearth, inadequacy, loss, paucity, poverty, reduction, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, abridgement, curtailment, decrease, default, defect, deficit, depletion, deprivation, destitution, distress, exigency, exiguity, inferiority, insufficiency, meagerness, miss, necessity, privation, retrenchment, scantiness, shortness, shrinkage, shrinking, slightness, stint, want, insufficience