Definitions for lacks

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lacks lack

Spelling: [lak]

IPA: /læk/

Lacks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in lacks (ackls).

Definitions for lacks

noun

1. deficiency or absence of something needed, desirable, or customary:
2. something missing or needed:

Verb phrases

1. lack in, to be short of or deficient in:

verb (used with object)

1. to be without or deficient in:
2. to fall short in respect of:

verb (used without object)

1. to be absent or missing, as something needed or desirable:

Origin of lacks

1125-75; Middle English lak; cognate with Middle Low German lak, Middle Dutch lac deficiency; akin to Old Norse lakr deficient

Examples for lacks

Every line and every shot announces itself with the urgency that Two Faces of January lacks.

What designer West lacks in productivity, he more than makes up for in pure, unadulterated confidence and blind anger.

We do not fulminate against a treatise on Quaternions because it lacks humor.

Even the valor of tragedy is denied to Daisy, “a woman born with a voice that lacks a tragic register.”

When he's got that, no matter what else he lacks, you've got something to build on.

"It lacks just a few months of being twenty-eight years," she added.

The current Court, though, is full not of pols but of judges; only Elena Kagan lacks prior experience as a federal judge.

Unfortunately, West Africa lacks many of the things required to make this happen.

It lacks the neatness, the athletic movement of Paine's English.

He lacks all his family's instinct for business-like promptitude.