lacks

NOUN

deficiency, need

Synonyms

STRONGEST

absence dearth inadequacy loss paucity poverty reduction scarcity shortage shortcoming shortfall

STRONG

abridgement curtailment decrease default defect deficit depletion deprivation destitution distress exigency exiguity inferiority insufficiency meagerness miss necessity privation retrenchment scantiness shortness shrinkage shrinking slightness stint want

WEAK

insufficience

Antonyms

STRONGEST

abundance affluence enough excess plenty success sufficiency

STRONG

addition advantage enlargement expansion increase perfection

WEAK

extra lot plethora profusion surplus

VERB

do not have

Synonyms

STRONGEST

need require want

STRONG

minus miss out

WEAK

be deficient in be short of be without have need of hurting for not got too little too late

Antonyms

STRONGEST

dislike have

Example Sentences

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Said one weary cop: "This city has plenty of wacks with a screwball sense of humor."

From Time Magazine Archive

His most readable chapter, "Some of My Best Friends Are News," is a collection of sketches of wacks he has met between Broadway and the East River.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sayin' which I storked contemptously out of the wacks figger department.

From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870 by Various

Don't let people of the world think they must draw down their faces and colaps, because a man joaks about a lot of wacks figgers dressed up in 6 penny caliker.

From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870 by Various