lack
noun
[ lak ]
• the state of being without or not having enough of something.
• "there is no lack of entertainment aboard ship"
Similar:
absence,
want,
need,
deficiency,
dearth,
insufficiency,
shortage,
shortfall,
scarcity,
paucity,
unavailability,
scarceness,
undersupply,
deficit,
scantiness,
sparseness,
meagreness,
inadequacy,
shortness,
deprivation,
destitution,
privation,
famine,
drought,
poverty,
non-existence,
rareness,
infrequency,
uncommonness,
exiguity,
exiguousness,
lack
verb
• be without or deficient in.
• "the novel lacks imagination"
Similar:
be without,
have need of,
be in need of,
need,
be lacking,
require,
want,
feel the want of,
be short of,
be deficient in,
stand in need of,
go without,
be bereft of,
be deprived of,
be low on,
be pressed for,
not have enough of,
be devoid of,
have insufficient,
cry out for,
miss,
be clean/fresh out of,
be strapped for,
Origin:
Middle English: corresponding to, and perhaps partly from, Middle Dutch and Middle Low German lak ‘deficiency’, Middle Dutch laken ‘lack, blame’.
