Synonyms for Lack
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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, lack, 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, lack, 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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How to use Lack in a sentence?

1. Martin Tobias Lithner:

   Getting confirmation of one's own creation is based solely on uncertainty and a lack of focus in one's own thinking.

2. Luis Gutierrez:

   Even though The President dropped the ball, The President is now doing a victory dance in the end zone, or should we call it the dead zone ? Trump's comments also drew swift condemnation from elected officials and residents of the island, where blackouts remain common, 60,000 homes still have makeshift roofs and 13 percent of municipalities lack stable phone or internet service. Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rossello said in a Facebook post in Spanish, the victims of Puerto Rico, and the people of Puerto Rico in general, do not deserve to be questioned about their pain. San Juan Mayor Carmen Yuln Cruz, a Democrat who has sparred with President Trump multiple times, tweeted that President Trump is so vain President Trump thinks this is about President Trump. NO IT IS NOT. In New York, which has the largest Puerto Rican population in the mainland United States, Gov. Andrew Cuomo called Trump’s tweets.

3. Mason Harrison:

   We have a lack of money from small donors in American politics, and if we have more people involved in the political process we can make great strides in terms of diluting the influence from special interests.

4. Saturday Haitian President Jovenel Moise:

   Despite our best efforts to rebuild after the earthquake, the scars of this tragic event remain, ten years on, we still lack the basic infrastructure and services to support the people of our country.

5. Jasmine Joof:

   It makes me sad that Howard University would treat me like this, the living conditions, the lack of transparency with the administration really sucks. They are actively standing on our backs saying they want to create student leaders... and they are ignoring us.