lack as a noun: - 1
as a verb: - 1
lack
noun
1 lack
The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable:
— There is a serious lack of insight into the problem.
synonyms: deficiency, want.
Roget 640:
insufficiency;
inadequacy,
inadequateness;
incompetence
etc.
(impotence)
158;
deficiency
etc.
(incompleteness)
53;
imperfection
etc.
651;
shortcoming
etc.
304;
paucity;
stint;
scantiness
etc.
(smallness)
32;
none to spare,
bare subsistence.
scarcity,
dearth;
want,
need,
lack,
poverty,
exigency;
inanition,
starvation,
famine,
drought.
dole,
mite,
pittance;
short allowance,
short commons;
half rations;
banyan day.
emptiness,
poorness
etc.
adj.;
depletion,
vacancy,
flaccidity;
ebb tide;
low water;
a beggarly account of empty boxes"
[Romeo and Juliet];
indigence
etc.
804;
insolvency
etc.
(nonpayment)
808.
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Roget 804:
poverty,
indigence,
penury,
pauperism,
destitution,
want;
need,
neediness;
lack,
necessity,
privation,
distress,
difficulties,
wolf at the door.
bad circumstances,
poor circumstances,
need circumstances,
embarrassed circumstances,
reduced circumstances,
straightened circumstances;
slender means,
narrow means;
straits;
hand to mouth existence,
res angusta domi [Lat.],
low water,
impecuniosity.
beggary;
mendicancy,
mendicity†;
broken fortune,
loss of fortune;
insolvency
etc.
(nonpayment)
808.
empty pocket,
empty purse;
light purse;
beggarly account of empty boxes.
[poor people]
poor man,
pauper,
mendicant,
mumper†,
beggar,
starveling;
pauvre diable [Fr.];
fakir†,
schnorrer†;
homeless person.
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Dutch: onvolkomenheid, ontoereikendheid, krapte, gemis, deficiëntie, gebrek, tekort
Polish: brak
verb
1 lack
Be without:
— This soup lacks salt.
synonym: miss.
Roget 640:
be insufficient
etc.
adj.;
not suffice
etc.
639;
come short of
etc.
304;
run dry.
want,
lack,
need,
require;
caret;
be in want
etc.
(poor)
804,
live from hand to mouth.
render insufficient
etc.
Adj.;
drain of resources,
impoverish
etc.
(waste)
638;
stint
etc.
(begrudge)
819;
put on short allowance.
do insufficiently
etc.
adv.;
scotch the snake.
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Roget 630:
require,
need,
want,
have occasion for;
not be able to do without,
not be able to dispense with;
prerequire†.
render necessary,
necessitate,
create a,
necessity for,
call for,
put in requisition;
make a requisition
etc.
(ask for)
765,
(demand)
741.
stand in need of;
lack
etc.
640;
desiderate†;
desire
etc.
865;
be necessary
etc.
Adj.
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Roget 53:
be incomplete
etc.
adj.;
fall short of
etc.
304;
lack
etc.
(be insufficient)
640;
neglect
etc.
460.
Roget 804:
be poor
etc.
adj.;
want,
lack,
starve,
live from hand to mouth,
have seen better days,
go down in the world,
come upon the parish;
go to the dogs,
go to wrack and ruin;
not have a penny
etc.
(money)
800,
not have a shot in one's locker;
beg one's bread;
tirer le diable par la queue [Fr.];
run into debt
etc.
(debt)
806.
render poor
etc.
adj.;
impoverish;
reduce,
reduce to poverty;
pauperize,
fleece,
ruin,
bring to the parish.
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Dutch: gebrek hebben, mankeren, missen, ontbreken, schorten
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