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- Dictionarylack/lak/
noun
- 1. the state of being without or not having enough of something: "there is no lack of entertainment aboard ship"
verb
- 1. be without or deficient in: "the novel lacks imagination"
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a condition of not having any or enough of something, esp. something necessary or wanted: a lack of ambition / confidence / knowledge. a lack of money. She certainly has no lack of friends (= She has a lot of friends). lack. verb [ T ] us / læk /
The meaning of LACK is to be deficient or missing. How to use lack in a sentence.
lack means to be without or to have less than a desirable quantity of something: to lack courage, sufficient money, enough members to make a quorum. want may imply some urgency in fulfilling a requirement or a desire: Willing workers are badly wanted.
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.
1. deficiency or absence of something needed or desirable: lack of money; lack of skill. 2. something missing or wanted: After he left, they really felt the lack. v.t.
If you lack something, you need or want something that's missing. When there's a lack of food, people starve. There are a lot of things lacking in the world. If you have no video games, then you're lacking them.
the state of not having something or not having enough of something synonym dearth, shortage. lack of something a lack of understanding/knowledge. Passengers complained about the lack of information when flights were cancelled. Her enthusiasm compensated for her apparent lack of experience.
