'Lack' definitions:
Definition of 'lack'
(from WordNet)
noun
The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" [syn: lack, deficiency, want]
verb
Definition of 'Lack'
From: GCIDE
- Lack \Lack\ (l[a^]k), n. [OE. lak; cf. D. lak slander, laken to blame, OHG. lahan, AS. le['a]n.]
- 1. Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food. [1913 Webster]
- She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Let his lack of years be no impediment. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lack'
From: GCIDE
- Lack \Lack\, interj. [Cf. Alack.] Exclamation of regret or surprise. [Prov. Eng.] --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lack'
From: GCIDE
- Lack \Lack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lacked (l[a^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Lacking.]
- 1. To blame; to find fault with. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Love them and lakke them not. --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be without or destitute of; to want; to need. [1913 Webster]
- If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God. --James i. 5. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lack'
From: GCIDE
- Lack \Lack\, v. i.
- 1. To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc. [1913 Webster]
- What hour now? I think it lacks of twelve. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty. --Gen. xvii. 28. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be in want. [1913 Webster]
- The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger. --Ps. xxxiv. 10. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'lack'
From: GCIDE
- Lac \Lac\ (l[a^]k), Lakh \Lakh\ (l[aum]k), n. [Hind. lak, l[=a]kh, l[=a]ksh, Skr. laksha a mark, sign, lakh.] One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees. [Written also lack.] [East Indies] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'lack'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absence,
- adulteration,
- arrearage,
- awayness,
- bare cupboard,
- bare subsistence,
- be found wanting,
- be in want,
- be insufficient,
- be pinched,
- be poor,
- beggarliness,
- beggary,
- blank,
- break,
- collapse,
- come short,
- dearth,
- decline,
- defalcation,
- default,
- defect,
- defectibility,
- defectiveness,
- deficiency,
- deficit,
- deprivation,
- destitution,
- discontinuity,
- drought,
- empty purse,
- erroneousness,
- fail,
- fail of,
- fall away,
- fall short,
- fall shy,
- fallibility,
- famine,
- faultiness,
- gap,
- go on welfare,
- grinding poverty,
- gripe,
- hand-to-mouth existence,
- hiatus,
- homelessness,
- immaturity,
- impairment,
- imperfection,
- impoverishment,
- impurity,
- inaccuracy,
- inadequacy,
- inadequateness,
- incompleteness,
- indigence,
- inexactitude,
- inexactness,
- insufficiency,
- interval,
- kick the beam,
- lacuna,
- lag,
- lose ground,
- mediocrity,
- mendicancy,
- miss,
- missing link,
- moneylessness,
- necessitousness,
- necessity,
- need,
- neediness,
- neverness,
- nonexistence,
- nonoccurrence,
- nonpresence,
- not answer,
- not hack it,
- not make it,
- not make out,
- not measure up,
- not qualify,
- not stretch,
- not suffice,
- nowhereness,
- omission,
- outage,
- patchiness,
- paucity,
- pauperism,
- pauperization,
- penury,
- pinch,
- privation,
- require,
- run short,
- run short of,
- scantiness,
- scarcity,
- shortage,
- shortcoming,
- shortfall,
- sketchiness,
- slump,
- starvation,
- starve,
- stop short,
- subtraction,
- ullage,
- underage,
- undevelopment,
- unevenness,
- unperfectedness,
- unsoundness,
- want,
- wantage