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All lack synonyms

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noun lack

  • deficiency β€” Deficiency in something, especially something that your body needs, is not having enough of it.
  • loss β€” detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
  • shortfall β€” the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
  • inadequacy β€” Also, inadequateness [in-ad-i-kwit-nis] /Ιͺnˈæd Ιͺ kwΙͺt nΙͺs/ (Show IPA). the state or condition of being inadequate; insufficiency.
  • reduction β€” the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
  • dearth β€” If there is a dearth of something, there is not enough of it.
  • paucity β€” smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness: a country with a paucity of resources.
  • absence β€” Someone's absence from a place is the fact that they are not there.
  • poverty β€” the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor. Synonyms: privation, neediness, destitution, indigence, pauperism, penury. Antonyms: riches, wealth, plenty.
  • scarcity β€” insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth.
  • shortage β€” a deficiency in quantity: a shortage of cash.
  • shortcoming β€” a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
  • distress β€” great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
  • privation β€” lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
  • defect β€” A defect is a fault or imperfection in a person or thing.
  • decrease β€” When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
  • want β€” to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
  • meagerness β€” deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
  • shrinking β€” to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
  • stint β€” to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance: Don't stint on the food. They stinted for years in order to save money.
  • shrinkage β€” the act or fact of shrinking.
  • depletion β€” a depleting or being depleted
  • deficit β€” A deficit is the amount by which something is less than what is required or expected, especially the amount by which the total money received is less than the total money spent.
  • abridgement β€” a shortened or condensed form of a book, speech, etc., that still retains the basic contents: an abridgment of Tolstoy's War and Peace.
  • destitution β€” Destitution is the state of having no money or possessions.
  • inferiority β€” lower in station, rank, degree, or grade (often followed by to): a rank inferior to colonel.
  • insufficiency β€” deficiency in amount, force, power, competence, or fitness; inadequacy: insufficiency of supplies.
  • curtailment β€” The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
  • necessity β€” something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
  • miss β€” to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
  • default β€” If a person, company, or country defaults on something that they have legally agreed to do, such as paying some money or doing a piece of work before a particular time, they fail to do it.
  • deprivation β€” If you suffer deprivation, you do not have or are prevented from having something that you want or need.
  • scantiness β€” scant in amount, quantity, etc.; barely sufficient.
  • slight β€” small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
  • retrenchment β€” the act of retrenching; a cutting down or off, as by the reduction of expenses.
  • shortness β€” having little length; not long.
  • nonexistence β€” absence of existence.
  • exigency β€” An urgent need or demand.
  • exiguity β€” The quality of being meagre or scanty.
  • insufficience β€” Obsolete form of insufficiency.
  • drought β€” A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall; a shortage of water resulting from this.
  • famine β€” extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical area.
  • denial β€” A denial of something is a statement that it is not true, does not exist, or did not happen.
  • withdrawal β€” Also, withdrawment. the act or condition of withdrawing.
  • removal β€” the act of removing.
  • dispossession β€” to put (a person) out of possession, especially of real property; oust.

verb lack

  • need β€” a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there.
  • require β€” to have need of; need: He requires medical care.
  • minus β€” less by the subtraction of; decreased by: Ten minus six is four.
  • out β€” away from, or not in, the normal or usual place, position, state, etc.: out of alphabetical order; to go out to dinner.
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