Antonyms for lack
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : lak |
| Phonetic Transcription : læk |
Definition of lack
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 cannot afford to do everything, nor can we afford to lack boldness as we meet the future.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- I am willing to believe that the lack of understanding was my own fault, but a lack of understanding there was.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- The things we lack are more vivid to us, as a rule, than those we have acquired.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- There are consciousnesses of lack which carry more bliss than any possession.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- In the selfishness of his misery he looked upon this as lack of sympathy with himself.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- We do not know what he means by this; it seems to us to lack scientific precision.
- Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 7, 1870 » by Various
- I should never have thought you capable of showing such a lack of principle.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- But Gilder was unaffected by the attorney's lack of satisfaction over the result.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- With his lack of imagination, he could not interpret what this time must mean to the girl before him.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- If he ever suspected any lack of finer fiber in Max, he put the thought away.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Synonyms for lack
- 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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