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Princeton's WordNet

  1. deficient, lacking(p), wanting(p)adjective

    inadequate in amount or degree

    "a deficient education"; "deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested and found wanting"

  2. lacking, absent, missing, wantingadjective

    nonexistent

    "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking"

Webster Dictionary

  1. Lacking

    of Lack

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. LACKING

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Lacking is ranked #147253 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Lacking surname appeared 112 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Lacking.

    93.7% or 105 total occurrences were Black.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lacking in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lacking in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of lacking in a Sentence

  1. Barry Ritholtz:

    We don't know if this correction will be modest or significant, a full-blown bear market or worse, lacking sufficient information to make an informed decision, I only suggest you don't make wild unsubstantiated guesses with your portfolios.

  2. Mohamed Bazza:

    Getting prepared for a drought requires integration (between various government agencies), this collaboration has usually been lacking.

  3. Imke Luebbeke:

    That's a very ambitious target, but the implementation is lacking a good progress, and very contradictory policies are in place, just to give you one example, the building sector in United Kingdom is a real problem, yet just recently, the government scrapped its Green Homes scheme, a £ 1.5 billion( $ 2 billion) commitment to support home owners to improve the insulation in their homes, so this doesn't really make sense.

  4. Peter Bouckaert:

    The detainees at Roszke are held in filthy, overcrowded conditions, hungry, and lacking medical care, the Hungarian authorities have an obligation to ensure that migrants and asylum-seekers are held in humane conditions and that their rights are respected.

  5. Christian Yates:

    Piebaldism is actually a disease, it's caused by cells in the early embryo failing to migrate correctly.... failing to get to the right place. The cells which we're interested in, that cause piebaldism, are called melanocytes and they're responsible for pigmentation of hair and of the skin. These cells start at the back of the embryo and they try to migrate round through the skin and cover the whole of the( embryo's) skin. When they fail to do that properly you tend to get regions of skin or hair which are lacking in pigment, often regions at the front of an animal. This is common in cats...... tuxedo cats, and it's also common in horses and pigs and even in humans.

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    the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
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