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lack English

Meaning lack meaning

What does lack mean?
Definitions in simple English

lack Noun

— If there is a lack of something, there is not enough of it or it doesn't exist at all. He was frustrated by the lack of progress. There is a lack of clarity about where the money is to come from. He was happy with his life, despite his lack of family. Many parents try to compensate for their lack of time with children by spending money on them. They cite the lack of seat belts for the injuries. There's no lack of beaches in Hawai'i. Her teachers complained about her lack of attention. Food or the lack thereof could be easily used as a weapon. South African art museums are suffering from a lack of official funding. His head ached, mostly due to a lack of food and sleep. Lack of coordination made the 23 separate anti-gang programs ineffective. The purpose of this study is to address the relative lack of empirical research on adults.

lack Verb

— If you lack something, you don't have it, or you don't have enough of it. He lacked the time and expertise to get the job done. Young people lack the necessary knowledge to make good business decisions. These materials lack sufficient strength to be used in building. Some adults lack the basic skills necessary to earn a living. — If you lack for something, you don't have it, or you don't have enough of it. She had never lacked for anything in her life.

lack

— noun (= deficiency, want) 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 — verb (= miss) be without This soup lacks salt There is something missing in my jewelry box!

Synonyms lack synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as lack?

lack English » English

shortage deficiency want absence scarcity need shortcoming dearth miss deficit insufficiency defect short of poverty flaw privation be short of inadequacy be missing vacancy shortfall require not have gap be short be absent without scantiness lack of failure fail deprivation be deficient shortness scantness requirement paucity omission missing misery little indigence few fault famine failing destitution default be without be lacking

Topics lack topics

What do people use lack to talk about?
States Quantity Enough

Lack
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Interested

Uninterested, bored
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Drought
Language and thought Think Understand

Misunderstand
Language and thought Think Opinion

Disbelief
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Purpose, goal
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Interested

Enthusiastic
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Interested

Indifferent
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Afraid

Worried
Language and thought Communication Say Ask

Answer
Language and thought Communication Interpreting messages

Meaningless
Social behavior Behavior Self-controlled

Lack self-control
Social behavior Authority Honor

Lack respect
Social behavior Religion

Irreligion
Daily life Food Eat

Hungry, thirsty
States Quantity

Enough
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Agent-oriented modalities

Can't

Conjugation lack conjugation

How do you conjugate lack?

lack · verb

Examples lack examples

How do I use lack in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I didn't give up for lack of hope.
Her lack of money kept her from going with me.
One out of ten people suffers from a lack of sleep.
Some people lack empathy.
Some people lack conscience.
Tom was released for lack of evidence.
You must make allowance for his lack of experience.
The lack of harmony between colors makes this painting stand out.
The firm went under due to lack of capital.
We failed due to a lack of preparation.
What with fatigue and lack of sleep, he has fallen ill at last.
My muscular strength has weakened from lack of exercise.
Lack of exercise may harm your health.
In light of his lack of abilities we cannot expect him to succeed.
In most cases, car accidents result from lack of sleep.
I think that is based on a lack of mutual understanding.
It sounds as if genius compensates for lack of experience.
There was a great lack of rice that year.
It's not the time but the will that you lack.
Diligence may compensate for lack of experience.
Nancy seems to lack sincerity.
The flower died for lack of water.
If you have a cold, lack of sleep is very bad for you.
Children sometimes lack patience.
We lack nothing.
We couldn't carry out our project because of a lack of funds.
His failure was in reality due to his lack of care.
There is a lack of communication between the young and the old.

Movie subtitles

We declare you acquitted due to lack of evidence.
Apparently on lack of evidence.
Compromised by her accomplice and lover Gurn in assassination of her husband lord Beltham, lady Beltham was discharged for lack of proof.
In 1921 the railways had no lack of passengers.
The degenaration of these people is caused mainly by hunger lack of hygiene, poverty and incest.
I can no longer write for lack of strength.
Why? He'd probably attach some occult significance to my lack of mirrors.
We blame the lack of light?
Lack, usually.
Because they lack the courage to do something.
Your friends lack tact.
Russia would never forgive us for the lack of daring.
I can't stand this ridiculous lack of privacy.
Anyway, that's his excuse for lack of courage.
Apparently on lack of evidence. Well, it looks like he was thoroughly investigated, thanks to that incident with Zero.
I lack sufficient data at this time, although it does seem as if an organization's behind this.
You're just suffering from lack of sleep.
Please forgive me for my lack of faith.
I've had no lack of experiences in my time, but to be bought and sold was a new one.
God, with the lack of women here in Australia someone will soon get her out of that prison. Someone who matches her!
All we lack is the motive and we'll have that as soon as this fellow spills.
It's not for lack of oil.
Can't stand this ridiculous lack of privacy. Lock the door.
I have unbounded confidence in his lack of discretion.
Am I the only one recognizing the lack of werewolfitude in these murders?
We don't lack anything.
You lack specific evidence.
Monsieur La Tour La Tour. I choose to think that idiotic reply was not a weak attempt at humor. But a definite lack of intelligence.
Your friends lack tact. They don't respect the appeal of your sorrow.
You have all the passion for life that I lack.
He says that without her, my woods lack poetry, and his gamekeeper's job seems utterly dreary.
As your guests, we never lack for anything.
Well, lack of wherewithal, I guess.
I daresay I've been stupid, but every day I realize the things she had that I lack.
Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms.
Doesn't the lack of police disgust you?
You think I lack proof?

News and current affairs

It is far from clear if he would have prevailed, given his lack of an independent political base, but his international prestige and standing might have given him a chance if he would have chosen to throw the gauntlet.
The collapse of world oil and gas prices has wounded Russia's budget, and lack of investment in the country's energy sector over the years is now causing the declining production that economists have long predicted.
It had an antecedent, that is, a lack of pre-emptive resistance at home and abroad to the threat that built up in Nazi Germany during the 1930's.
Today's problems are compounded by a lack of sufficient private demand - particularly household consumption - in the advanced economies to compensate for demand losses stemming from austerity.
Such weak recoveries, by definition, lack the cushion of V-shaped rebounds.
Therefore, the recent lack of progress in Turkey's reform process can to a large extent be explained by the EU's behavior.
It would be more than a tragedy - it would be unparalleled political folly - if, because of a lack of commitment and political foresight, the West were to squander its successes in Afghanistan.
This miserable situation has been attributed to various causes, mainly lack of infrastructure and local economic conditions.
What we lack now is not analysis, but the organizational and political will to do so.
Moreover, countries like Ethiopia are making valiant, indeed remarkable, efforts to overcome their problems, despite the lack of adequate, and long-promised, help from the world's richest countries.
Countries like Ghana do not lack enterprise.
Of course, these reforms are resisted, primarily by the oligarchs who thrive on a lack of transparency and use privileged access to state resources to enhance their business interests.
People lack the determination to take the action.
At the same time, the lack of structural reforms in emerging markets, together with their move towards greater state capitalism, is hampering growth and will reduce their resiliency.
They are hungry because they lack the ability to buy high-yield seeds, fertilizer, irrigation equipment, and other tools needed to increase productivity.
The economic crisis was caused by shortsightedness and a lack of control in the global financial system.
Despite her two decades of house arrest and isolation, Suu Kyi possesses two of the gifts that enabled Mandela to carry out his great task: a reassuring serenity and an utter lack of vindictiveness.
On both of these fronts, the EU's lack of strategic vision has created the impression that Europe is repeatedly being outmaneuvered by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The ENP suffers operationally from its excessively technical approach and lack of strategic vision.
The Taliban are now an increasingly spent force, but lack of water reinforced the logic of opium production across its former strongholds in the south.
Foreign investment in sub-Saharan Africa, which reached record levels in recent years, is retreating, which is evidence of investor caution, not any underlying lack of optimism about the region.
They were only exposing the lack of unity that already existed.

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