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Lack

Lack Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Lack? [n] the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" [v] be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewellery box!" [v] be without, lack; be deficient in; "want courtesy"; "want the strength to go on living"; "flood victims wanting food and shelter" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Lack: deficiency \| miss \| want Related Terms \| Find terms related to Lack: absence \| adulteration \| arrearage \| awayness \| bare cupboard \| bare subsistence \| be found wanting \| be in want \| be insufficient \| be pinched \| be poor \| beggarliness \| beggary \| blank \| break \| collapse \| come short \| dearth \| decline \| defalcation \| default \| defect \| defectibility \| defectiveness \| deficiency \| deficit \| deprivation \| destitution \| discontinuity \| drought \| empty purse \| erroneousness \| fail \| fail of \| fall away \| fall short \| fall shy \| fallibility \| famine \| faultiness \| gap \| go on welfare \| grinding poverty \| gripe \| hand-to-mouth existence \| hiatus \| homelessness \| immaturity \| impairment \| imperfection \| impoverishment \| impurity \| inaccuracy \| inadequacy \| inadequateness \| incompleteness \| indigence \| inexactitude \| inexactness \| insufficiency \| interval \| kick the beam \| lacuna \| lag \| lose ground \| mediocrity \| mendicancy \| miss \| missing link \| moneylessness \| necessitousness \| necessity \| need \| neediness \| neverness \| nonexistence \| nonoccurrence \| nonpresence \| not answer \| not hack it \| not make it \| not make out \| not measure up \| not qualify \| not stretch \| not suffice \| nowhereness \| omission \| outage \| patchiness \| paucity \| pauperism \| pauperization \| penury \| pinch \| privation \| require \| run short \| run short of \| scantiness \| scarcity \| shortage \| shortcoming \| shortfall \| sketchiness \| slump \| starvation \| starve \| stop short \| subtraction \| ullage \| underage \| undevelopment \| unevenness \| unperfectedness \| unsoundness \| want \| wantage See Also \| absence \| dearth \| demand \| exclude \| famine \| lack \| mineral deficiency \| need \| shortage \| stringency \| tightness \| want Lack In Webster's Dictionary \Lack\, n. [OE. lak; cf. D. lak slander, laken to blame, OHG. lahan, AS. le['a]n.] 1. Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food. She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood. --Chaucer. Let his lack of years be no impediment. --Shak. \Lack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lacked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lacking}.] 1. To blame; to find fault with. [Obs.] Love them and lakke them not. --Piers Plowman. 2. To be without or destitute of; to want; to need. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God. --James i. 5. \Lack\, v. i. 1. To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc. What hour now ? I think it lacks of twelve. --Shak. Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty. --Gen. xvii. 28. 2. To be in want. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger. --Ps. xxxiv. 10. \Lack\, interj. [Cf. {Alack}.] Exclamation of regret or surprise. [Prov. Eng.] --Cowper.

Lack Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Lack?

[n] the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost"
[v] be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewellery box!"
[v] be without, lack; be deficient in; "want courtesy"; "want the strength to go on living"; "flood victims wanting food and shelter"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Lack: deficiency | miss | want

Lack In Webster's Dictionary

\Lack\, n. [OE. lak; cf. D. lak slander, laken to blame,
OHG. lahan, AS. le['a]n.]
1. Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. [Obs.]
   --Chaucer.

2. Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack
   of sufficient food.

         She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood.
                                               --Chaucer.

         Let his lack of years be no impediment. --Shak.


\Lack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lacked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Lacking}.]
1. To blame; to find fault with. [Obs.]

         Love them and lakke them not.         --Piers
                                               Plowman.

2. To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.

         If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God.
                                               --James i. 5.


\Lack\, v. i.
1. To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to
   be less than, short, not quite, etc.

         What hour now ? I think it lacks of twelve. --Shak.

         Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty.
                                               --Gen. xvii.
                                               28.

2. To be in want.

         The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger. --Ps.
                                               xxxiv. 10.


\Lack\, interj. [Cf. {Alack}.]
Exclamation of regret or surprise. [Prov. Eng.] --Cowper.

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