lacking

Missing or not having enough of (a good quality, etc).

Adjective

  1. Missing or not having enough of (a good quality, etc).
    • This cheese is lacking in pungency.
    • The team was lacking in stamina and lost the match decidedly.
    • A few of the pieces of this jigsaw puzzle are lacking.

    Hypernyms: absent

Forms

more lacking most lacking

Synonyms

absent awanting bereft of deficient of deprived of destitute of devoid of lacking leer poor in robbed of shorn of stripped of void of wanting

Antonyms

present

Hyponyms

achromatic alexithymic amorphous bare-bones beginningless cheerless foolish impoverished inexperienced insubstantial humorless mute naive silent stupid unadorned unemployed uninhabited unskilled vague weak weak-minded worthless

Related

lose loss rare

Derived

catch lacking lackingness

Noun

  1. The absence of something that is desirable or otherwise ought to be present.
    • Cagliostro, however, whatever his moral lackings, did not lack spirit; he was not the man to succumb to this kind of coercion. - 1914, Sax Rohmer, The Romance of Sorcery:

    Synonyms: lack

    Hypernyms: absence

Forms

lackings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of lack