Antonyms for lacks


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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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