lack
About 69.69 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want, dearth.
It is a question of money, or lack of same.
- noun A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
- verb To be without, not to have, to need, to require.
My life lacks excitement.
- verb To be short (of or for something).
He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.
- verb To be in want.
- verb To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.
- verb To be off one's guard.
His opps caught him lacking.
- noun Archaic form of lakh.
a lack of rupees
Similar words
deficiency miss want insufficient insufficiency deficient deficit inadequacy inadequate shortcoming
Often followed by
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Word family
lac lacked lacking lacks
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