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- Dictionarylacking/ˈlakɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. not available or in short supply: "adequate resources are sadly lacking"
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LACKING definition: 1. If something that you need is lacking, you do not have enough of it: 2. to not have a quality…. Learn more.
The meaning of LACK is to be deficient or missing. How to use lack in a sentence. to be deficient or missing; to be short or have need of something; to stand in need of : suffer from the absence or deficiency of…
If there's a shortage of something, it's lacking. You might also describe something that's deficient — or not quite good enough — as lacking. If a substitute teacher is lacking in skill when it comes to controlling a rowdy class, he'll be exhausted by the end of his first day on the job.
LACK definition: 1. the fact that something is not available or that there is not enough of it: 2. to not have or…. Learn more.
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.
To be without or in need of: lacked the strength to lift the box. 1. To be missing or deficient: We suspected that he was lying, but proof was lacking. 2. To be in need of something: She does not lack for friends. [Middle English, perhaps from Middle Dutch lac, deficiency, fault.]
lacking (in something) having none or not enough of something. She's not usually lacking in confidence. The film is sorely lacking in originality. He was taken on as a teacher but was found lacking (= was thought not to be good enough). The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words.
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If something or someone is lacking in a particular quality, they do not have any of it or enough of it. ...if your hair is lacking in lustre and feeling dry. American English : lacking / ˈlakɪŋ /
People who are thirsty and starving lack food and water. Many people lack money and health care. A lack of something is the opposite of an abundance of something.
