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lacking en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. Missing or not having enough of (a good quality, etc).
    • The team was lacking in stamina and lost the match decidedly.
    • A few of the pieces of this jigsaw puzzle are lacking.
    • This cheese is lacking in pungency.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most lacking Degree=Sup lexicographic
more lacking Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Antonyms

present

Deriveds

catch lacking · lackingness

Hypernyms

absent

Hyponyms

uninhabited · naive · mute · foolish · inexperienced · worthless · weak-minded · insubstantial · alexithymic · unskilled · humorless · unadorned · achromatic · bare-bones · stupid · unemployed · vague · weak · cheerless · amorphous · beginningless · silent · impoverished

Relateds

loss · lose · rare

Synonyms

destitute of · poor in · lacking · shorn of · devoid of · awanting · wanting · bereft of · stripped of · deprived of · robbed of · void of · absent · leer · deficient of

Translations (27)

de mangelhaft (missing or not having enough of something) · fi puutteellinen (missing or not having enough of something) · cmn 缺乏 (missing or not having enough of something) · got 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐍃 (missing or not having enough of something) · el ελλιπής (missing or not having enough of something) · pt desprovido (missing or not having enough of something) · fr dépourvu (missing or not having enough of something) · cmn 欠缺 (missing or not having enough of something) · ca desproveït (missing or not having enough of something) · cmn 不足 (missing or not having enough of something) · de mangeln (missing or not having enough of something) · sa ऊन (missing or not having enough of something) · ca freturós (missing or not having enough of something) · ca freturosa (missing or not having enough of something) · ga de dhíth (missing or not having enough of something) · el ανεπαρκής (missing or not having enough of something) · es falto/carente/carenciado [with de] (missing or not having enough of something) · pl pozbawiony (missing or not having enough of something) · ota اكسیك (missing or not having enough of something) · msk kolang (missing or not having enough of something) · la dēlicuus (missing or not having enough of something) · enm bareyne (missing or not having enough of something) · it sprovvisto (missing or not having enough of something) · de but see -los (-less) (missing or not having enough of something) · ja いまいち (missing or not having enough of something) · ota نقصان (missing or not having enough of something) · ca mancat (missing or not having enough of something)

lacking en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. The absence of something that is desirable or otherwise ought to be present.
    • Cagliostro, however, whatever his moral lackings, did not lack spirit; he was not the man to succumb to this kind of coercion. 1914, Sax Rohmer, The Romance of Sorcery:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
lackings Number=Plur lexicographic

Hypernyms

absence

Synonyms

lack

lacking en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of lack
    form of lack