Definitions of lack [æk]

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Definition of 'lack'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) lack
deficiency or absence of something needed or desirable:
lack of money; lack of skill.

2.  lack
something missing or wanted:
After he left, they really felt the lack.

3. (v.t.) lack
to be without; have need of:
You lack common sense.

4.  lack
to fall short in respect of:
He lacks three votes to win.

5. (v.i.) lack
to be absent or missing:
Nothing lacks but their full agreement.

6.  lack
to have a scarcity of something:
She will never lack for friends.

Etymology: (1125–75; ME lak; c. MLG lak, MD lac deficiency; akin to ON lakr deficient)

Definition of 'lack'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) lack, deficiency, want
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"

2. (verb) miss, lack
be without
"This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewelry box!"

Definition of 'lack'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) lack
a situation when there is not enough; = shortage
a lack of food; a lack of discipline

2. (verb) lack
to not have enough or any of sth
The school lacks teaching materials.; He lacks a sense of humor.

Definition of 'lack'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) lack
blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense

2. (noun) lack
deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food

3. lack
exclamation of regret or surprise

4. (verb) lack
to blame; to find fault with

5. (verb) lack
to be without or destitute of; to want; to need

6. (verb) lack
to be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc

7. (verb) lack
to be in want

Translation of 'lack'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to have too little or none of He lacked the courage to join the army.
Afrikaans: skort	Arabic: يَنْقُص	Bulgarian: липсвам
Brazilian: faltar	Czech: nemít	German: fehlen
Danish: mangle	Greek: στερούμαι, μου λείπει	Spanish: carecer de
Estonian: ilma olema	Farsi: نداشتن؛ کم داشتن	Finnish: puuttua
French: manquer de qqch.	Hebrew: חֲסַר-	Hindi: कमी होना
Croatian: nemati	Hungarian: hiányzik	Indonesian: kurang
Icelandic: skorta	Italian: mancare di	Japanese: ～がない
Korean: 결핍되다	Lithuanian: neturėti, stokoti	Latvian: trūkt; nepietikt
Malay: kurang	Dutch: missen	Norwegian: mangle, savne
Polish: nie posiadać	Persian: نداشتن؛ کم داشتن	Pashto: هيڅ نه لرل
Portuguese: faltar a	Romanian: a-i lipsi, a nu avea	Russian: не хватать
Slovak: nemať	Slovenian: imeti premalo	Serbian: oskudevati
Swedish: sakna	Thai: ขาด	Turkish: ...-i olmamak
Taiwanese: 缺乏	Ukrainian: потребувати; бракувати	Urdu: بہت کم مقدار میں یا بالکل
Vietnamese: thiếu	Chinese: 缺乏
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