Lack

Noun

 * 1)  A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
 * 2) A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.

Antonyms

 * glut
 * surplus

Verb

 * 1)  To be without, to need, to require.
 * My life lacks excitement.
 * 1)  To be short (of or for something).
 * He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.

Adverbs for Lack
lamentably; puzzlingly; vainly; essentially; wretchedly; sorely; utterly; sadly; deplorably;  definitely;   obviously;   tragically; dramatically.

Adjectives for Lack
pretended; noticeable; all-round; deplorable; disorderly; overwhelming; impressive; plentiful; definite; obvious.

Verbs for Lack
atone for—; bare—; bemoan—; compensate for—; confess—; decry—; disclose—; imply —; perceive—; recognize—; recompense for —; remedy—; sense—; suffer—; supply—; suspect—; —crushes; —disgraces; —handicaps; —humbles; —irks; —offends; —ostracizes; —saddens.

Thesaurus
absence, adulteration, arrearage, awayness, bare cupboard, bare subsistence, be found wanting, be in want, be insufficient, be pinched, be poor, beggarliness, beggary, blank, break, collapse, come short, dearth, decline, defalcation, default, defect, defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, deprivation, destitution, discontinuity, drought, empty purse, erroneousness, fail, fail of, fall away, fall short, fall shy, fallibility, famine, faultiness, gap, go on welfare, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, hiatus, homelessness, immaturity, impairment, imperfection, impoverishment, impurity, inaccuracy, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompleteness, indigence, inexactitude, inexactness, insufficiency, interval, kick the beam, lacuna, lag, lose ground, mediocrity, mendicancy, miss, missing link, moneylessness, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, neverness, nonexistence, nonoccurrence, nonpresence, not answer, not hack it, not make it, not make out, not measure up, not qualify, not stretch, not suffice, nowhereness, omission, outage, patchiness, paucity, pauperism, pauperization, penury, pinch, privation, require, run short, run short of, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, sketchiness, slump, starvation, starve, stop short, subtraction, ullage, underage, undevelopment, unevenness, unperfectedness, unsoundness, want, wantage

Etymology
Apparently cognate with Middle Low German lak:, Middle Dutch lac: ( > modern lak:).

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: manque, défaut
 * German:
 * Hungarian: hiány
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: lipsă (de)
 * Russian:, нехватка,
 * Scottish Gaelic:, , ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: avsaknad
 * Turkish: ...i olmamak, olmayis

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: derven, ontberen, missen, gebrek hebben (aan)
 * Finnish: puuttua, olla vailla jotakin
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hungarian: nélkülöz


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 欠ける, 欠く
 * Latin: desum, egeo, careo
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: sakna, fattas
 * Welsh: yn eisiau

Related terms

 * lacklustre

Anagrams

 * calk

Noun

 * 1) lacquer

Related terms

 * klarlack
 * lacknafta
 * lackskor
 * nagellack