Definitions for lack

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lack lack

Spelling: [lak]

IPA: /læk/

Lack is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in lack (ackl).

Definitions for lack

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 lack

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

Examples for lack

The things we lack are more vivid to us, as a rule, than those we have acquired.

The following month came, and for lack of a better term, I chickened out.

There are a few good ones, Antoine says, but he complained bitterly of a lack of responsiveness.

But this physical involvement, or lack of it, is only part of the problem.

In the selfishness of his misery he looked upon this as lack of sympathy with himself.

There were also crashes not due to either mechanical or human error but to a lack of warning of dangerous conditions.

We cannot afford to do everything, nor can we afford to lack boldness as we meet the future.

But in the case of black women, another study found no lack of interest.

I am willing to believe that the lack of understanding was my own fault, but a lack of understanding there was.

There are consciousnesses of lack which carry more bliss than any possession.