Lack

Quick meaning: Lack is a noun meaning A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want, dearth.

Meaning

A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want, dearth.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, stative) To be without, not to have, to need, to require.
2. (intransitive) To be short (of or for something).
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in want.
4. (African-American Vernacular) To be off one's guard.
5. Archaic form of lakh.
6. (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
7. (obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.

Example Sentences

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.

[…] let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend estimation;

Word Forms

• lacks
• lacking
• lacked

Synonyms for lack

Depending on context, synonyms include dearth, deficiency, deficit, dejection, inadequacy, infrequency.

Antonyms for lack

Common opposites include adequacy, excess, glut, surplus, plethora, have.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include deficiency, miss, want, insufficient, insufficiency, deficient.

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