Antonyms 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

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

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lacknoun

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

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

2. lackverb

   Antonyms:
   supply, have abundance of

   Synonyms:
   want, require, need, be destitute of

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms: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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:2.0 / 2 votes

1. provision

   since the meaning the meaning of the word is supplying , or providing a thing .... , then the amtonym might be lack of this specific thing.

   Submitted by rinat on June 11, 2017  

How to use lack in a sentence?

1. Howard Schultz:

   I’ve talked to thousands of our Starbucks partners, i was shocked, stunned to hear the loneliness, the anxiety, the fracturing of trust in government, fracturing of trust in companies, fracturing of trust in families, the lack of hope in terms of opportunity.

2. Irving Kristol:

   The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility

3. Elizabeth Frantz:

   And I think that’s part of the problem. We, for lack of a better word, segregate ourselves in divisive ways, that’s not conducive to healthy relationships.

4. Christine Moutier:

   The lack of an association between deployment and suicide risk isn't surprising, at a very high level, these findings highlight the need for us to pay closer attention to what happens when people leave the military.

5. Petros Papadakis:

   I don’t think it’s the end of the world that there are not a bunch more undefeated teams at this point, the lack of undefeated teams is a small story compared to the way UCLA and Oregon dominated those games in the way they did. That’s the biggest takeaway.

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