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lacking

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  • verb Present participle of lack.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective inadequate in amount or degree
  • adjective nonexistent

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Examples

  • Tom gently probed the wound, his expression lacking optimism.

    Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry 2010

  • So having stress disorder was seen as lacking morals, hence the term lacking moral fibre?

    lmf 2006

  • Hannah hesitated, her expression lacking the assurance that had seemed so natural to her.

    A Share in Death Deborah Crombie 1993

  • What has been sorely lacking is the pastoral dimension.

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • A middle layer of explanation has certainly been lacking from the start: the effort of persuasion that is neither inspirational nor tactical, where a leader tries to convert people to his side.

    David Bromwich: The Dying Art of Political Explanation David Bromwich 2010

  • A middle layer of explanation has certainly been lacking from the start: the effort of persuasion that is neither inspirational nor tactical, where a leader tries to convert people to his side.

    David Bromwich: The Dying Art of Political Explanation David Bromwich 2010

  • A middle layer of explanation has certainly been lacking from the start: the effort of persuasion that is neither inspirational nor tactical, where a leader tries to convert people to his side.

    David Bromwich: The Dying Art of Political Explanation David Bromwich 2010

  • What has been sorely lacking is the pastoral dimension.

    Scripture 2009

  • A middle layer of explanation has certainly been lacking from the start: the effort of persuasion that is neither inspirational nor tactical, where a leader tries to convert people to his side.

    David Bromwich: The Dying Art of Political Explanation David Bromwich 2010

  • A middle layer of explanation has certainly been lacking from the start: the effort of persuasion that is neither inspirational nor tactical, where a leader tries to convert people to his side.

    David Bromwich: The Dying Art of Political Explanation David Bromwich 2010

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synonyms (121)

Words with the same meaning

  1. absconded
  2. absent
  3. adulterated
  4. arrested
  5. away
  6. bankrupt in
  7. bare of
  8. bereaved
  9. bereaved of
  10. bereft
  11. bereft of
  12. blemished
  13. callow
  14. cut off
  15. damaged
  16. defective
  17. deficient
  18. deleted
  19. denuded
  20. denuded of
  21. departed
  22. deprived of
  23. destitute of
  24. devoid
  25. devoid of
  26. disappeared
  27. divested
  28. embryonic
  29. empty of
  30. erroneous
  31. existless
  32. failing
  33. fallible
  34. faulty
  35. for want of
  36. forlorn of
  37. found wanting
  38. gone
  39. half-assed
  40. hypoplastic
  41. immature
  42. impaired
  43. imperfect
  44. imprecise
  45. impure
  46. in arrear
  47. in arrears
  48. in default
  49. in default of
  50. in short supply
  51. in want of
  52. inaccurate
  53. inadequate
  54. incompetent
  55. incomplete
  56. inexact
  57. infant
  58. inferior
  59. insufficient
  60. makeshift
  61. mediocre
  62. minus
  63. missing
  64. mixed
  65. needing
  66. negative
  67. no longer present
  68. nonattendant
  69. nonexistent
  70. not enough
  71. not found
  72. not perfect
  73. not present
  74. null
  75. off
  76. omitted
  77. out of
  78. out of pocket
  79. out of sight
  80. part
  81. parted from
  82. partial
  83. patchy
  84. robbed of
  85. sans
  86. scant
  87. scant of
  88. scanty
  89. scrappy
  90. shorn of
  91. short
  92. short of
  93. shy
  94. shy of
  95. sketchy
  96. stripped of
  97. subtracted
  98. taken away
  99. too little
  100. unblessed with
  101. underdeveloped
  102. undeveloped
  103. unequal to
  104. uneven
  105. unexisting
  106. unfinished
  107. unperfected
  108. unpossessed of
  109. unqualified
  110. unreached
  111. unsatisfactory
  112. unsatisfying
  113. unsound
  114. unsufficing
  115. unthorough
  116. vacuous
  117. vanished
  118. void
  119. void of
  120. wanting
  121. without being

equivalents (3)

Other words for 'lacking'

  1. inadequate
  2. nonexistent
  3. unequal

rhymes (16)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. attacking
  2. backing
  3. cracking
  4. hacking
  5. jacking
  6. packing
  7. racking
  8. sacking
  9. smacking
  10. snacking
  11. stacking
  12. tacking
  13. tracking
  14. unpacking
  15. whacking
  16. wracking

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