What is another word for lacking?
723 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ lˈakɪŋ], [ lˈakɪŋ], [ l_ˈa_k_ɪ_ŋ]
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Similar words for lacking:
- absent (adjective)
- bankrupt (adjective)
- bare (adjective)
- below par (adjective)
- defective (adjective)
- deficient (adjective)
- destitute (adjective)
- devoid (adjective)
- empty (adjective)
- gauche (adjective)
- gone (adjective)
- inadequate (adjective)
- incomplete (adjective)
- inconclusive (adjective)
- less (adjective)
- lost (adjective)
- meager (adjective)
- minus (adjective)
- missing (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- penniless (adjective)
- poor (adjective)
- short (adjective)
- unfinished (adjective)
- unsure (adjective)
- void (adjective)
- wanting, deficient (adjective)
- weak (adjective)
- bereft of (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- except (preposition)
- other relevant words (preposition)
- lacking (verb)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Lacking:
adj.
• absent (adjective)- truant,
- elsewhere,
- no-show,
- departed,
- abstract,
- wanting,
- Omitted,
- empty,
- away,
- absent,
- nonexistent,
- Non-existent,
- vacant,
- out.
- un furnished,
- un-furnished,
- more unfurnished,
- de solate,
- de sert,
- de-solate,
- de-sert,
- most unfurnished.
- most inferior,
- most off-form,
- sub-standard,
- under weather,
- more offform,
- sub standard,
- most offform,
- offform,
- more off form,
- most off form,
- off form,
- more off-form.
- insufficient,
- un healthiest,
- most flawed,
- sub normal,
- un-sounder,
- un sounder,
- most blemished,
- un-healthiest,
- on bum,
- un healthy,
- un-sound,
- sub-normal,
- more subnormal,
- sickest,
- most seconds,
- most subnormal,
- out order,
- more seconds,
- more flawed,
- un sound,
- subnormal,
- in-sufficient,
- un-healthier,
- un soundest,
- on the bum,
- un-healthy,
- in sufficient,
- un-soundest,
- un healthier,
- more blemished.
- third string,
- unassembled,
- not enough,
- not cut out for,
- rarest,
- found wanting,
- imperfect,
- outta gas,
- not make it,
- not up to scratch.
- be-reft,
- on breadline,
- more without,
- most without,
- most busted,
- most moneyless,
- more beggared,
- more busted,
- be reft,
- poverty stricken,
- most totaled,
- more pinched,
- penurious,
- more totaled,
- more moneyless,
- on rocks,
- stripped,
- totaled,
- most divested,
- more divested,
- most beggared,
- povertystricken,
- most pinched.
- more despoiled,
- more vacated,
- most despoiled,
- most vacated,
- de spoiled,
- un-filled,
- unfilled,
- de-spoiled,
- un occupied,
- most evacuated,
- un-occupied,
- more evacuated,
- wastest,
- un filled,
- un inhabited,
- un-inhabited.
- more disintegrated,
- most disintegrated,
- dis appeared,
- not sign of,
- re moved,
- more dissolved,
- more run-off,
- de ceased,
- more nonextant,
- dis-solved,
- most run-off,
- non extant,
- most elapsed,
- out window,
- more elapsed,
- down drain,
- most shifted,
- more consumed,
- with-drawn,
- de-ceased,
- dis-appeared,
- more quit,
- dis-placed,
- dis-integrated,
- retired,
- non-extant,
- most away,
- most disappeared,
- re-tired,
- dis integrated,
- most quit,
- more passed,
- more away,
- most flown,
- turned dust,
- de-parted,
- de camped,
- more runoff,
- re tired,
- most nonextant,
- more flown,
- dis solved,
- with drawn,
- de-camped,
- more run off,
- most runoff,
- most split,
- more decamped,
- more shifted,
- most run off,
- taken powder,
- most passed,
- dis placed,
- most consumed,
- most dissolved,
- more disappeared,
- most decamped,
- more split,
- de parted.
- glitcher,
- more lemon,
- in commensurate,
- in-aptest,
- un productive,
- in appreciable,
- in aptest,
- in-capable,
- un-productive,
- in capable,
- in-adequate,
- in substantial,
- in-commensurate,
- incapable,
- lemon,
- more niggardly,
- in competent,
- bushleague,
- most niggardly,
- in-considerable,
- in considerable,
- junker,
- in-competent,
- most stinted,
- inconsiderable,
- glitchest,
- in-substantial,
- un qualified,
- most lemon,
- in adequate,
- more stinted,
- junkest,
- un-qualified,
- in-apter,
- in-appreciable,
- too little,
- impotent,
- in apter.
- unfulfilled,
- undone,
- scanty,
- half-done,
- immature,
- unsatisfactory,
- sectional,
- Curtailed,
- unconsummated,
- fractional,
- unachieved,
- Parter,
- fragmentary,
- half done,
- partial,
- under construction,
- incomplete,
- short,
- Unaccomplished,
- embryonic,
- discontinuous,
- patchy,
- unattained,
- Unexecuted,
- segmental.
- in-conclusive,
- un-fateful,
- unfateful,
- in conclusive,
- in-decisive,
- un fateful,
- in decisive,
- un settled,
- un convincing,
- in determinate,
- un-eventful,
- un decided,
- un-settled,
- most unfateful,
- un-convincing,
- more unfateful,
- un eventful,
- un-decided.
- irretrievable,
- unredeemed,
- off course,
- kiss goodbye,
- fallen between cracks,
- gone astray,
- at sea,
- cast away,
- nowhere to be found.
- more starved,
- more beanstalk,
- more rattleboned,
- skin bones,
- scraggier,
- more broomstick,
- more beanpole,
- most rattleboned,
- most beanpole,
- meager,
- most beanstalk,
- most broomstick,
- lithe.
- lost,
- on the rocks,
- dead broke,
- not oneself,
- skin and bones,
- defective,
- Tenantless,
- Fluctuant,
- Beggared,
- niggardly,
- taken leave,
- in the rough,
- uncompleted,
- unprovided with,
- scraggy,
- unconvinced,
- not present,
- left behind,
- played out,
- in need of,
- in a quandary,
- on the breadline,
- flat broke,
- destitute,
- bankrupt,
- in the making,
- burned up,
- flawed,
- weak,
- wimpy,
- gone,
- run-off,
- cleaned out,
- gauche,
- touch and go,
- not a sign of,
- unaccounted for,
- in the gutter,
- taken a powder,
- deprived of,
- dried up,
- unfurnished,
- unconcluded,
- void,
- down to last penny,
- without a dime,
- free from,
- turned to dust,
- out the window,
- run off,
- up for grabs,
- rattleboned,
- bare,
- on last leg,
- not here,
- nonextant,
- broomstick,
- devoid,
- Sans,
- dirt poor,
- no more,
- beanstalk,
- off-form,
- unsure,
- devoid of,
- unconfident,
- below par,
- rootless,
- unassured,
- inadequate,
- deficient,
- betwixt and between,
- penniless,
- less,
- poor,
- unfinished,
- moneyless,
- scraggiest,
- untrusty.
- un-adorned,
- more unconcluded,
- un-refined,
- most unfashioned,
- most unconcluded,
- un-finished,
- un-fashioned,
- un-perfected,
- un adorned,
- in rough,
- most roughhewn,
- in making,
- un fulfilled,
- unadorned,
- un concluded,
- more unfashioned,
- un completed,
- un-concluded,
- more dabbling,
- un perfected,
- most uncompleted,
- un fashioned,
- most unfulfilled,
- roughhewn,
- un refined,
- un finished,
- more roughhewn,
- more uncompleted,
- more unfulfilled,
- un-completed,
- Unfashioned,
- not done,
- most dabbling,
- un-fulfilled.
- more unassured,
- un stablest,
- un-trustworthy,
- un stable,
- mis trustful,
- un clear,
- touch go,
- most unconvinced,
- un convinced,
- un assured,
- untrustiest,
- more rootless,
- most fluctuant,
- un-convinced,
- un trustier,
- un dependable,
- in quandary,
- more unconvinced,
- mis-trustful,
- un sure,
- wimpiest,
- fly by night,
- un-sure,
- un-confident,
- un-stable,
- un reliable,
- most unconfident,
- un-trustier,
- un-reliable,
- un-clear,
- un-assured,
- un stabler,
- most unassured,
- un clearest,
- un confident,
- un-trusty,
- more fluctuant,
- untrustier,
- betwixt between,
- dis-trustful,
- more unconfident,
- un-stablest,
- un-stabler,
- un trusty,
- un trustiest,
- un-clearest,
- dis trustful,
- most rootless,
- un-dependable,
- un-trustiest.
n.
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•
- in absentia.
prep.
• except (preposition) • Other relevant words: (preposition)v.
• lacking (verb) • Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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•
- forfeit,
- lean,
- misplaced,
- tied up,
- awol,
- unaccounted-for,
- absentee,
- due,
- unobtainable,
- nowhere,
- long-lost,
- irrecoverable,
- no place,
- unattainable,
- unavailable,
- long-awaited.
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•
- stray.
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•
- innocent.
- distress,
- void of,
- faithless,
- abort,
- bankrupt in,
- shorn,
- poor man,
- incredulous,
- scrimp,
- Escaping,
- privation,
- shy of,
- Deleted,
- unsatisfying,
- adulterated,
- demanding,
- breakdown,
- null,
- out of,
- arrested,
- scant,
- displeasing,
- in arrear,
- inferior,
- makeshift,
- Blaming,
- in need,
- damaged,
- unchristian,
- vanished,
- subtracted,
- scarce,
- loss,
- in short supply,
- denuded of,
- deficit,
- shortage,
- disappoint,
- unacceptable,
- perfunctory,
- shortfall,
- crude,
- fail,
- unperfected,
- in arrears,
- craving,
- demerit,
- Deistical,
- paucity,
- vacuous,
- taken away,
- Absconded,
- not worth,
- Without,
- indigence,
- in want of,
- chest,
- shorn of,
- Divested,
- bare of,
- defect,
- unworthy,
- owe,
- mixed,
- be short of,
- Absenting,
- substandard,
- insufficiency,
- shorting,
- miscarry,
- denuded,
- mediocre,
- overlooking,
- incompetent,
- seldom met with,
- failing,
- in default of,
- Disappeared,
- economize,
- be reft of,
- be lacking,
- unthorough,
- absence,
- scrappy,
- unconverted,
- blemished,
- waning,
- Blemishing,
- unequal to,
- not including,
- part,
- lack,
- erroneous,
- undeveloped,
- fallible,
- half-assed,
- dropping,
- unexisting,
- distressing,
- impure,
- dearth,
- scarceness,
- unreached,
- Omitting,
- poor person,
- inconclusive,
- off,
- wishing,
- unqualified,
- bereaved of,
- abate,
- die,
- inaccurate,
- low,
- unsound,
- inadequacy,
- Faulting,
- break,
- abandon,
- unprepared,
- deprivation,
- freethinking,
- destitution,
- Neglecting,
- at a premium,
- empty of,
- deteriorate,
- callow,
- defecting,
- vacancy,
- bereft of,
- infant,
- shortcoming,
- starved,
- unsuitable,
- deficiency,
- failure,
- Antichristian,
- fall,
- languish,
- must,
- skeptical,
- be missing,
- unusual,
- shy,
- shorts,
- disadvantaging,
- scarcity,
- be deficient,
- Desiring,
- disappointing,
- exclusive of,
- out of sight,
- poverty,
- fault,
- skimpy,
- parted from,
- apologize,
- destitute of,
- Excluding,
- meagre,
- sketchy,
- impaired,
- gaping,
- bereaved,
- lessing,
- drop,
- bosom,
- inappropriate,
- hardship,
- cease,
- apology,
- pass,
- rare,
- fade,
- abstracted,
- want,
- negative,
- Excepting,
- unbelieving,
- lame,
- underdeveloped,
- owe money,
- bankruptcy,
- needs,
- droop,
- hypoplastic,
- uneven,
- NOT FOUND,
- faulty,
- cabinet,
- penury,
- necessity,
- forlorn of,
- voiding,
- brief,
- hollow,
- needful,
- in default,
- inexact,
- skimp,
- imprecise.
How to use "Lacking" in context?
People often use lack to mean "to be deficient or missing something." For example, "I need milk to avoid getting crunchy cereal, but I don't have any, so I am lacking milk." Lack can also be used to describe a desirable quality, such as "The new apartment complex is perfect for people who are looking for a lack of noise." Lack can also be used verbally, as in "Can you please help me to fill this request for proposals?
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Equivalence
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Independent
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Adjective
absent, insufficient, missing, nonexistent, Inexistent.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
absent, backing, barring, being, breaking, case, conducting, exceeding, facing, failing, falling, faltering, feeling, fewer, going, hurting, leading, less, losing, low, missing, mourning, moving, owing, performing, playing, reality, remaining, resulting, running, sagging, shortcoming, slipping, tackling, waiting, wanting, wishing, worrying, Awaiting, Breaching, Defaulting, Denying, Depriving, Evading, Excluding, Having, Neglecting, Nor, Owning, Refusing, Removing, Requiring, Robbing, Violating, Possessing, Resources, contains, cases, limitations, reneging.
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Other Related
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Adjective
deficient, devoid, lacks, Non-existent.
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Adjective
Homophones for Lacking:
- laziness, lushness, luging, leguminosae, leishmaniasis, loginess, lashing, licensee, lozenge, lysenko, leguminious, Logomachy, loquaciousness, licencee, leaching, lessing, lashings, logging, license, losings, lousiness, lacewing, likeness, laughing, licking, loosening, lysimachus, Leakiness, laxness, lake seneca, likening, laughing jackass, lysogenize, legging, licence, lusciousness, lysogenic, lacing, looking, Lake Onega, lessening, lake nyasa, looseness, Luckiness, ligneous, lawlessness, laconic, like kings, lissomeness, loganiaceae, loch ness, lagging, locking, leishmaniosis, logomach, lichenes, lignosae, laughing gas, lysimachia, lychnis, liking, leucogenes, logginess, leguminous.
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