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Definitions of lack:

noun: the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
Example: "There is a serious lack of insight into the problem"
verb: be without
Example: "This soup lacks salt"
name: A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #9221)

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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to lack: (461 results)
Synonyms:
deficiency, miss, want

More general:
demand, need

More specific:
absence, dearth, exclude, famine, shortage, sideropenia, stringency, tightness

Often used in the same context:
absent, gross, lacking, lack of, potential, wants, warning, winning, without

Appears in the definition of:
., aborning, acathexis, achromasia, acute, adolescent, advantageous, adynamia, aggravation, allow, amateurishness, amyotonia, anaemia, anemia, anergy, anomie, anomy, anteater, antisocial personality disorder, apathetic, apoplexy, appropriate, artless, asphyxiate, asymmetry, asystole, atheism, atonia, atonic, atonicity, atony, atrophied, atrophy, attributable, awkwardness, backwardness, badly, bankruptcy, bareness, base, beastly, becalmed, beriberi, bestial, blindness, blithe, boughless, brainish, brazenness, brutea, brutish, bungling, callowness, cardiac arrest, cardiac resuscitation, cardiopulmonary arrest, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, careless, catastrophe, cecity, cerebrovascular accident, chasteness, childish, closeness, clumsiness, clumsy, coarsened, coldness, condescension, confusedness, confusion, consensus, contempt, contemptible, coolness, corruption, corruptness, cpr, credulous, cva, darkened, daze, defect, deficiency disease, degage, delicacy, demonstrable, dependance, dependence, dependency, depress, depression, despite, desultory, detached, diffidence, diminished, disarray, discontinuity, discord, discordance, discourtesy, disdain, disharmony, dishonesty, disinterest, disloyal, disproportion, disregard, disrespect, disrespectful, disunity, doubt, dramatize, drowsy, dullness, dulness, dwarf, enervation, evenness, failure, fair, famishment, floor, fog, fractiousness, fragility, frigidity, fruitlessness, fugaciousness, fugacity, fumbling, get around to, glib, groping, half-cock, haze, heartless, heedlessness, hesitant, heterology, hotheaded, humbleness, humility, hypopigmentation, ignorance, ill-being, imbalance, immature, immediacy, immediateness, impartial, impatience, impeded, impetuous, improvidence, imprudence, impulsive, inability, inadequacy, inanition, inanity, inaptitude, inattention, inattentive, inattentiveness, incapability, incapableness, incapacity, incertain, incoherence, incoherency, incompetence, incompetency, incompetent, inconsistent, incoordination, incorrectness, indecision, indecisive, indecisiveness, indecorousness, indecorum, indifference, indifferent, inefficaciousness, inefficacy, inefficiency, inelasticity, inept, ineptitude, ineptness, inequality, inexperience, infantile, infantile autism, inflation, inflexibility, inflexibleness, ingratitude, inharmoniousness, inhumane, initiation, injudicious, insensibility, insolvency, insubstantiality, insufficiency, intrinsic factor, invariability, iron deficiency anaemia, iron deficiency anemia, irrelevance, irrelevancy, irresponsible, irreverent, jejune, jejuneness, juvenile, juvenility, kingdom monera, kiss of life, knavery, kuru, languor, lassitude, let, lethargy, levity, licence, license, lightheadedness, listlessness, lividity, lividness, loco disease, locoism, low-birth-weight infant, lukewarmness, luridness, lysine intolerance, lysinemia, madcap, maladroitness, malignant anaemia, malignant anemia, manginess, mean, meanspirited, mental confusion, mental retardation, mindlessness, mineral deficiency, mingy, miserliness, miserly, monera, monotony, moral hazard, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, naif, naive, naiveness, naivete, naivety, neglect, negligent, neutrality, new world anteater, noa, no-good, nonchalance, nonconformance, nonconformity, nonconscious, nonliterary, nonobservance, numbness, obscureness, obscurity, obstacle, offence, offense, offensive activity, oscitant, ostentation, ostentatiousness, osteoporosis, paleness, pallidness, pallor, passiveness, passivity, patency, patronage, permit, pernicious anaemia, pernicious anemia, pettiness, phenylketonuria, phlegm, pins and needles, pitiable, pitilessness, pku, pointlessness, pomposity, pompousness, poor, posttraumatic stress disorder, pretentiousness, procaryotic, prokaryotic, provincialism, psychopathic personality, ptsd, puerile, pusillanimously, redeye, redeye flight, reflect, restless, restlessness, restraint, retardation, rh negative, rh-negative blood, rh-negative blood type, rubber, ruthlessness, sameness, scorn, secretiveness, seediness, self-distrust, self-doubt, self-forgetful, senselessness, seriousness, shabbiness, shallowness, shamelessness, shiftless, shiftlessness, shortsightedness, sightlessness, simperingly, simple mindedness, simplicity, sinking, slowness, sluggishness, smothering, sociopathic personality, sottishness, splashiness, starkness, starvation, starvation acidosis, starved, starving, stifle, stinginess, stone, straightness, strife, stroke, stupid, subnormality, suffocate, suffocating, suffocative, superficiality, surprising, tactless, talentlessness, taste, tastelessness, tautness, tearawaya, tepidness, thoughtless, tigerish, tight, timid, toppling, torpidity, torpidness, torpor, traceable, transparent, unassertive, unawareness, unbiased, unbiassed, uncertain, uncertainly, uncleanliness, unconcern, unconfident, unconnectedness, uncreativeness, undeterred, undutifulness, uneasy, unenlightenment, unevenness, ungraciousness, ungratefulness, uninvolved, unkindness, unknowingness, unliterary, unmalleability, unorganized, unoriginality, unpatriotic, unperceptiveness, unpermissiveness, unrelatedness, unruliness, unscientific, unseemliness, unskillfulness, unsure, untactful, unwise, vacuity, variability, wanness, wasted, wild, wilfulness, willfulness, withering, yawn, yawninga

Antonyms:
feature, have

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