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LACKING
deficient, lacking, wanting
(adjective) inadequate in amount or degree; “a deficient education”; “deficient in common sense”; “lacking in stamina”; “tested and found wanting”
lacking, absent, missing, wanting
(adjective) nonexistent; “the thumb is absent”; “her appetite was lacking”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
lacking
present participle of lack
Noun
lacking (plural lackings)
The absence of something; a lack.
Adjective
lacking (comparative more lacking, superlative most lacking)
Missing or not having enough of (a good quality, etc).
not carrying a firearm
Anagrams
• Glackin, calking
Source: Wiktionary
LACK
Lack, n. Etym: [OE. lak; cf. D. lak slander, laken to blame, OHG. lahan, AS. leán.]
1. Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food. She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood. Chaucer. Let his lack of years be no impediment. Shak.
Lack, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Lacking.]
1. To blame; to find fault with. [Obs.] Love them and lakke them not. Piers Plowman.
2. To be without or destitute of; to want; to need. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God. James i. 5.
Lack, v. i.
1. To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc. What hour now I think it lacks of twelve. Shak. Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty. Gen. xvii. 28.
2. To be in want. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger. Ps. xxxiv. 10.
Lack, interj. Etym: [Cf. Alack.]
Definition: Exclamation of regret or surprise. [Prov. Eng.] Cowper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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