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lack
[ lak ]
noun
- an absence or inadequate amount of something needed, desirable, or customary:
We had to severely limit our holiday gift shopping due to lack of funds.
Lack of skill is the main reason he didn’t get the job.
Synonyms: need, want, insufficiency, deficit, paucity, scarcity, dearth
Antonyms: surplus
- something missing or needed:
After he left, they really felt the lack.
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
- to be absent or missing, as something needed or desirable:
Three votes are lacking to make a majority.
verb phrase
- to be short of or deficient in:
What he lacks in brains, he makes up for in brawn.
lack
/ læk /
noun
- an insufficiency, shortage, or absence of something required or desired
- something that is required but is absent or in short supply
verb
- whenintr, often foll by in or for to be deficient (in) or have need (of)
to lack purpose
Word History and Origins
Origin of lack1
Word History and Origins
Origin of lack1
Example Sentences
But in the case of black women, another study found no lack of interest.
There were also crashes not due to either mechanical or human error but to a lack of warning of dangerous conditions.
But this physical involvement, or lack of it, is only part of the problem.
There are a few good ones, Antoine says, but he complained bitterly of a lack of responsiveness.
The following month came, and for lack of a better term, I chickened out.
He is perplexed and hindered by the lack of soldiers, but is doing his best with his small forces.
The lack of bill buyers in foreign countries who will quote as low rates on dollar as on sterling bills.
The rapid spread of the revolt was not a whit less marvelous than its lack of method or cohesion.
He heard himself saying lightly, though with apparent lack of interest: 'How curious, Lettice, how very odd!
Such mutual distrust necessarily creates or accompanies a lack of moral courage.
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