noun. Deficiency or absence.

noun. A particular deficiency or absence.

intransitive verb. To be without or in need of.

intransitive verb. To be missing or deficient.

intransitive verb. To be in need of something.

To pierce the hull of with shot.

noun. Want or deficiency of something requisite or desirable; defect; failure; need.

noun. Want of presence; a state of being away; absence.

noun. A want; defect; a blemish; especially, a moral defect; a fault in character.

noun. A fault committed; an offense; a censurable act.

noun. Blame; reproach; rebuke; censure.

See lac.

To lacquer; treat with lac.

To be wanting or deficient; come short; fail.

To be absent or away; be missing.

To be in want; suffer need.

To be wanting to; fail.

To be in want of; stand in need of; want; be without; be destitute of; fail to have or to possess.

To suffer the absence of; feel the deprivation of; miss.

To blame; reproach; speak in detraction of.

To beat. Also lacky.

Synonyms Lack, Need, Want. These words have come to overlap each other a good deal by figurative extension, and have considerable variety of peculiar idiomatic use. To lack is primarily and generally to be without, that which is lacked being generally some one thing, and a thing which is desirable, although generally not necessary or very important.

Used in the exclamatory phrase Good lack. See good.

interjection. Exclamation of regret or surprise.

intransitive verb. To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc.

intransitive verb. To be in want.

noun. Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.

noun. Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure.

transitive verb. To blame; to find fault with.

transitive verb. To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.

noun. A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.

noun. A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.

verb. To be without, to need, to require.

verb. To be short (of or for something).

noun. the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

verb. be without

"In his remarks, President Obama referred again to what he called a lack of political will in Washington and an "insistence on drawing lines in the sand" that he said needs to be changed as the deficit and debt debate moves forward."

glut  have  surplus  

fail  

lacklustre  

exclude  want  

Adak  Black  Braque  Chirac  Jack  

absence  advantage  amount  aspect  example  

absence  adulteration  arrearage  awayness  bare cupboard  

lacked  lacking  lacks