Lackless

Quick meaning: Lackless is an adjective meaning hapless; unfortunate.

Meaning

hapless; unfortunate.

More Meanings

1. (rare) Devoid of lack.

Example Sentences

Courts martial convened at the courthouse quite frequently for the trial of offenders against the militia law, and many a lackless delinquent was fined for his non-attendance at drills or musters, or for other offenses.

In order to continue to not be lacking, you must receive the joy as well, which others have available in their “lackless” supply of joy. This is how giving and receiving can be seen as two distinct aspects of the same thought.

Realizing as they do the necessity for reaching a class that they regard as beneath their own, they attempt to ' write down ' to their readers, and they are apt to do this with an insolence and a lackless condescension that are a positive insult to those whom they address.

John Doe with gifts was richly blessed; he might have distanced all the rest, had fortune kindly been; but fortune put the kibosh on the efforts of the lackless John, and never won a grin. I wonder why an Edgar Poe found life a wilderness of woe, and starved in garrets bare, while bards who cannot sing for prunes eat costly grub from golden spoons, and purple raiment wear.

Synonyms for lackless

Depending on context, synonyms include abundant, copious, rife.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include beingless, devoid, bereft, naked, barren, lichenless.

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