Associations to the word «Lack»

Wiktionary

LACK, noun. (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
LACK, noun. A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
LACK, verb. (transitive) To be without, to need, to require.
LACK, verb. (intransitive) To be short (of or for something).
LACK, verb. (intransitive) To be in want.
LACK, verb. (obsolete) To see the ‘lack’ in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.

Dictionary definition

LACK, noun. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost".
LACK, verb. Be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewelry box!".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King