 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
lacking
adjective
1: not existing; "innovation has been sadly lacking";
"character development is missing from the book" [syn:
{lacking(p)}, {missing}, {nonexistent}, {wanting(a)}]
2: inadequate in amount or degree; "a deficient education";
"deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested
and found wanting" [syn: {deficient}, {lacking(p)}, {wanting(p)}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lack \Lack\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Lacked} (l[a^]kt); 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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "lacking":
absconded, absent, adulterated, arrested, away, bankrupt in,
bare of, bereaved, bereaved of, bereft, bereft of, blemished,
callow, cut off, damaged, defective, deficient, deleted, denuded,
denuded of, departed, deprived of, destitute of, devoid, devoid of,
disappeared, divested, embryonic, empty of, erroneous, existless,
failing, fallible, faulty, for want of, forlorn of, found wanting,
gone, half-assed, hypoplastic, immature, impaired, imperfect,
imprecise, impure, in arrear, in arrears, in default,
in default of, in short supply, in want of, inaccurate, inadequate,
incompetent, incomplete, inexact, infant, inferior, insufficient,
makeshift, mediocre, minus, missing, mixed, needing, negative,
no longer present, nonattendant, nonexistent, not enough,
not found, not perfect, not present, null, off, omitted, out of,
out of pocket, out of sight, part, parted from, partial, patchy,
robbed of, sans, scant, scant of, scanty, scrappy, shorn of, short,
short of, shy, shy of, sketchy, stripped of, subtracted,
taken away, too little, unblessed with, underdeveloped,
undeveloped, unequal to, uneven, unexisting, unfinished,
unperfected, unpossessed of, unqualified, unreached,
unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, unsound, unsufficing, unthorough,
vacuous, vanished, void, void of, wanting, without being
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