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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…
Lacking definition: being without; not having; wanting; less. See examples of LACKING used in a sentence.
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.
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.
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. She felt nervous, increasingly lacking in confidence about herself.
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.
adjective. /ˈlækɪŋ/ [not before noun] 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). Extra Examples. Oxford Collocations Dictionary.
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 .]
Definition of lack verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
