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Synonyms for LACK
læklack
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Wiktionary
English Synonyms and Antonyms
lack
Synonyms:
dearth, defect, deficiency, destitution, economy, failure, frugality, inadequacy, insufficiency, need, poverty, scantiness, shortcoming, wantAntonyms:
dissipation, excess, exorbitance, extravagance, intemperance, lavishness, overplus, prodigality, profusion, redundance, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surplus, waste, wastefulness
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
lacknoun
Synonyms:
failure, scarcity, deficiency, want, need, demand, insufficiencyAntonyms:
fulness, abundance, sufficiency, satisfaction, supply, competencelackverb
Synonyms:
want, require, need, be destitute ofAntonyms:
supply, have abundance of
Princeton's WordNet
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, lack, deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiencymiss, 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, lack, escape
Dictionary of English Synonymes
lackverb
Synonyms:
want, need, be in want of, be in need of, be destitute of, be withoutlackverb
Synonyms:
be in wantlackverb
Synonyms:
be wantinglacknoun
Synonyms:
need, deficiency, destitution, want, scantiness, insufficiency, scarcity, dearth, default, defectiveness, shortness, shortcoming, DEFICIT
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
lacknoun
Synonyms:
want, need, deficiency, dearth, paucity, scarcity, drought, default, deficit, insufficiency, inadequacy, shortnesslackverb
Synonyms:
need, want, be in need of, require, sedulous
PPDB, the paraphrase database
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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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#48 | no | |
#183 | need | |
#254 | want | |
#972 | loss | |
#1059 | needed | |
#1089 | wish | |
#1539 | require | |
#1779 | economy | |
#1829 | demand | |
#2032 | miss | |
#2158 | drop | |
#2246 | missing | |
#2278 | failure | |
#2498 | lack | |
#3169 | lose | |
#3761 | poverty | |
#4114 | gap | |
#4430 | escape | |
#4642 | absence | |
#5045 | fault | |
#6793 | absent | |
#8380 | deficit | |
#9974 | wishing | |
#10208 | inadequate | |
#10242 | insufficient | |
#10327 | defect | |
#10574 | lacking | |
#10765 | deficiency | |
#11158 | neglect | |
#11775 | shortage | |
#13061 | lacks | |
#13804 | misses | |
#18466 | shortages | |
#18526 | lacked | |
#19109 | deprivation | |
#19766 | omit | |
#20010 | overlook | |
#23993 | shortfall | |
#27877 | scarcity | |
#31954 | insufficiency | |
#43809 | inadequacy | |
#47177 | dearth | |
#49433 | unavailability | |
#55818 | shortcoming | |
#60520 | paucity | |
#88969 | falta | |
#95106 | frugality | |
#95248 | destitution | |
#112192 | privation | |
#187358 | misdemeanour | |
#229574 | neediness |
How to use LACK in a sentence?
Most capitulation are lack of boldness,you need to be bold!!!
It's not just vaccines, also, in some states, Erin Burnett, the problem is a lack of people to give shots. We're working on surging that capacity. In some states there aren't enough places. We've announced the creation of federal vaccination centers. So we need more vaccine, we need more vaccinations, we need more places to give the vaccinations. We are working on all three of those things.
The problem with the centralization of power under Xi Jinping is the lack of delegation of authority to lower levels.
Secretary General Antonio Guterres:
A lack of accountability emboldens those who would use such weapons by providing them with the reassurance of impunity.
One of the biggest frustrations that daters experience on a dating app is this lack of clarity on what the other person might be looking for.
Translations for LACK
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- نقص, عدم وجودArabic
- брак, адсу́тнасцьBelarusian
- отсъ̀ствие, ну́жда, ли́псаBulgarian
- manca, mancar, falta, faltarCatalan, Valencian
- postrádat, nedostatekCzech
- yn eisiauWelsh
- entbehren, fehlen, mangeln, MangelGerman
- mankoEsperanto
- falta, carecer, faltar, ausencia, carenciaSpanish
- puute, vaje, puuttua, vajausFinnish
- manquer, défaut, manqueFrench
- uireasaIrish
- easbhaidh, gainne, cion, gainneadScottish Gaelic
- कमीHindi
- mankeHaitian Creole
- nélkülöz, hiányHungarian
- պակասArmenian
- indijarIdo
- skorta, skorturIcelandic
- necessitare, mancanza, carenza, richiedere, scarseggiare, penuria, scarsità, mancareItalian
- 欠ける, 欠く, 不足Japanese
- 부족Korean
- desum, egeo, pēnūria, desidero, careoLatin
- koreMāori
- недостатокMacedonian
- gebrekDutch
- mangel, mangleNorwegian
- niedostatek, brakPolish
- faltar, deficiência, falta, carência, carecerPortuguese
- lipsăRomanian
- отсутствовать, нехва́тка, отсу́тствие, недоста́ток, нужда́Russian
- недостатак, nedostatakSerbo-Croatian
- nedostatokSlovak
- fattas, brist, sakna, avsaknadSwedish
- பற்றாக்குறைTamil
- eksiklik, yoksunluk, yoksun olmak, yoklukTurkish
- відсу́тність, брак, недоста́чаUkrainian
- کمیUrdu
- thiếuVietnamese
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