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. Phil Campbell:

   It was probably just lack of focus in certain areas, we weren’t more tired than they were.

2. Bill McQuaker:

   I hesitate to say fragmented markets are a universal good...But in these particular circumstances, the lack of linkages has certainly been an important contributor to relative stability.

3. Beijing Normal University:

   The textbooks are rigorously designed, tested, revised and checked. We have consulted with parents, students and teachers throughout the process, the need for sex education as well as child sexual development is hugely neglected (in China), as there is a lack of sex education in both family and school.

4. De Vos:

   Russian attacks have an impact that exists long after the physical damage to a building; lack of access to necessary care and essential medicines destabilizes the population at large, i think that is precisely why the health care is often targeted.

5. Matteo Salvini:

   That is crazy, it's a lack of respect for people, magistrates, journalists, policemen and victims of the mafia.