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/læk/ · noun
A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want, dearth..
[…] let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend estimation;
I went to a shrink, to analyze my dreams. He said it's lack of sex that's bringing me down.
If Moldova harboured even the slightest hopes of pulling off a comeback that would have bordered on miraculous given their lack of quality, they were snuffed out 13 minutes before the break when Oxlade-Chamberlain picked his way through midfield before releasing Defoe for a finish that should have been dealt with more convincingly by Namasco at his near post.
More flak was aimed at the Treasury's apparent lack of marketing skills, when it was argued that its idea of how to sell tickets was along the lines of "you can get two tickets for the price of two", and it lacks the sales and promotional skills of the train operating companies which are needed to boost revenue.
In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
My life lacks excitement.
He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.
Hamlet. What hour now? Horatio. I think it lacks of twelve.
Use lack when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lack means A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want, dearth..
Common synonyms include dearth, deficiency, deficit, dejection.
Possible antonyms include adequacy, excess, glut, surplus.
[…] let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend estimation;
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