Synonyms for lack
læklack

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:1.5 / 2 votes

1. lacknoun

   Antonyms:
   surplus, glut

2. lacknoun

   To be without, to need, to require.

   My life lacks excitement.

   Antonyms:
   surplus, glut

3. lacknoun

   To be short (of or for something).

   He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.

   Antonyms:
   surplus, glut

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. lack

   Synonyms:
   dearth, defect, deficiency, destitution, economy, failure, frugality, inadequacy, insufficiency, need, poverty, scantiness, shortcoming, want

   Antonyms:
   dissipation, excess, exorbitance, extravagance, intemperance, lavishness, overplus, prodigality, profusion, redundance, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surplus, waste, wastefulness

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1. lacknoun

   Synonyms:
   failure, scarcity, deficiency, want, need, demand, insufficiency

   Antonyms:
   fulness, abundance, sufficiency, satisfaction, supply, competence

2. lackverb

   Synonyms:
   want, require, need, be destitute of

   Antonyms:
   supply, have abundance of

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. lack, deficiency, wantverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   neediness, need, deprivation, wishing, wish, want, privation, deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency

2. miss, lackverb

   be without

   "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewelry box!"

   Synonyms:
   drop, omit, lose, neglect, leave out, overleap, pretermit, miss, overlook, escape

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1. lackverb

   Synonyms:
   want, need, be in want of, be in need of, be destitute of, be without

2. lackverb

   Synonyms:
   be in want

3. lackverb

   Synonyms:
   be wanting

4. lacknoun

   Synonyms:
   need, deficiency, destitution, want, scantiness, insufficiency, scarcity, dearth, default, defectiveness, shortness, shortcoming, DEFICIT

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1. lacknoun

   Synonyms:
   want, need, deficiency, dearth, paucity, scarcity, drought, default, deficit, insufficiency, inadequacy, shortness

2. lackverb

   Synonyms:
   need, want, be in need of, require, sedulous

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "lack":

   absence, shortage, lacks, failure, insufficient, scarcity, missing, shortfall, dearth, unavailability, paucity, inadequacy, deficiency, miss, shortages, insufficiency, fault, non-existence, non-availability, shortcoming, deficit, inadequate, lacking, falta, gap, misses, loss, defect, misdemeanour, needed, lacked, absent, no

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1. Roger Wicker:

   Strategic investments in technologies and supply chains are important, but we will not win by simply throwing money at the problem, we could actually end up doing harm if recipients of funding through this concept lack the capacity and capability to conduct RD activities that are actually useful.

2. Associated Press:

   Scholars developed it during the 1970s and 1980s in response to what they viewed as a lack of racial progress following the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, it centers on the idea that racism is systemic in the nation’s institutions and that they function to maintain the dominance of white people in society.

3. Volodymyr Groysman:

   If the coalition suggest I head the government, I would need the new government to have a core of people who have proved in recent times they lack political bias, are clean, and able to carry out reforms.

4. Victoria Spartz:

   Unfortunately, we have too many people that … hopefully they change their mind that the biggest threat is the climate change right now because we have much bigger problems right now and we have lack of common sense, we have a lack of common sense in Europe, but we also have lack of common sense in our country, and it's created instability, bloodshed and a lot of problems. So we need to be smarter. And I think, you know, this president needs to understand if we want to tip the scale and make President Putin listen to us, the most effective way to do it is stop financing his war.

5. Roche Chief Executive Severin Schwan:

   You have a real lack of healthcare infrastructure which doesn't even enable generic companies to bring medicines to the Indian population.