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| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : lak |
| Phonetic Transcription : læk |
Definition of lacks
Origin :- c.1300, "absence, want; shortage, deficiency," perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *lac, or else borrowed from Middle Dutch lak "deficiency, fault;" in either case from Proto-Germanic *laka- (cf. Old Frisian lek "disadvantage, damage," Old Norse lakr "lacking"), from PIE *leg- "to dribble, trickle." Middle English also had lackless "without blame or fault."
- noun deficiency, need
- verb do not have
- We do not fulminate against a treatise on Quaternions because it lacks humor.
- Extract from : « The Dramatic Values in Plautus » by Wilton Wallace Blancke
- "It lacks just a few months of being twenty-eight years," she added.
- Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
- When he's got that, no matter what else he lacks, you've got something to build on.
- Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
- It lacks the neatness, the athletic movement of Paine's English.
- Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford
- He lacks all his family's instinct for business-like promptitude.
- Extract from : « People of Position » by Stanley Portal Hyatt
- He is supported on crutches, but lacks so much support of muscle.
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- But the writings of Brougham do not sell; he lacks even the solace of Bolingbroke.
- Extract from : « Leading Articles on Various Subjects » by Hugh Miller
- And being, if not all things, lacks something of the nature of being, and becomes not-being.
- Extract from : « Sophist » by Plato
- And, on the other, he who has the knowledge of what is right is more righteous than he who lacks that knowledge?
- Extract from : « The Memorabilia » by Xenophon
- But if he lacks history, he has a temper—a temper with which it is useless to argue.
- Extract from : « The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 » by Various
Synonyms for lacks
- abridgement
- absence
- be deficient in
- be short of
- be without
- curtailment
- dearth
- decrease
- default
- defect
- deficit
- depletion
- deprivation
- destitution
- distress
- exigency
- exiguity
- have need of
- hurting for
- inadequacy
- inferiority
- insufficience
- insufficiency
- loss
- meagerness
- minus
- miss
- necessity
- need
- not got
- out
- paucity
- poverty
- privation
- reduction
- require
- retrenchment
- scantiness
- scarcity
- shortage
- shortcoming
- shortfall
- shortness
- shrinkage
- shrinking
- slightness
- stint
- too little too late
- want
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