Definitions for: Lack


[n] 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"
[v] be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewellery box!"
[v] be without, lack; be deficient in; "want courtesy"; "want the strength to go on living"; "flood victims wanting food and shelter"



Webster (1913) Definition: Lack, n. [OE. lak; cf. D. lak slander, laken to blame,
OHG. lahan, AS. le['a]n.]
1. Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

2. Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack
of sufficient food.

She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood.
--Chaucer.

Let his lack of years be no impediment. --Shak.


Lack, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lacked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Lacking.]
1. To blame; to find fault with. [Obs.]

Love them and lakke them not. --Piers
Plowman.

2. To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God.
--James i. 5.


Lack, v. i.
1. To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to
be less than, short, not quite, etc.

What hour now ? I think it lacks of twelve. --Shak.

Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty.
--Gen. xvii.
28.

2. To be in want.

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger. --Ps.
xxxiv. 10.


Lack, interj. [Cf. Alack.]
Exclamation of regret or surprise. [Prov. Eng.] --Cowper.

Synonyms: deficiency, miss, want

Antonyms: feature, have

See Also: absence, dearth, demand, exclude, famine, lack, mineral deficiency, need, shortage, stringency, tightness, want

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