LACKING definition: 1. If something that you need is lacking, you do not have enough of it: 2. to not have a quality…. Learn more.

Synonyms for LACKING: insufficient, scarce, inadequate, low, deficient, short, wanting, unacceptable; Antonyms of LACKING: adequate, sufficient, enough, abundant, ample, plentiful, generous, liberal

If there's a shortage of something, it's lacking. You might also describe something that's deficient — or not quite good enough — as lacking. If a substitute teacher is lacking in skill when it comes to controlling a rowdy class, he'll be exhausted by the end of his first day on the job.

lacking (in something) having none or not enough of something. She's not usually lacking in confidence. The film is sorely lacking in originality. He was taken on as a teacher but was found lacking (= was thought not to be good enough).

To be without or in need of: lacked the strength to lift the box. 1. To be missing or deficient: We suspected that he was lying, but proof was lacking. 2. To be in need of something: She does not lack for friends. [Middle English, perhaps from Middle Dutch lac, deficiency, fault.]

The meaning of LACK is to be deficient or missing. How to use lack in a sentence.

If something or someone is lacking in a particular quality, they do not have any of it or enough of it. ...if your hair is lacking in luster and feeling dry. She felt nervous, increasingly lacking in confidence about herself.

Lacking equipment, the laboratory couldn't undertake the research project. He was found lacking in stamina. Lacking definition: . See examples of LACKING used in a sentence.

LACKING definition: missing or absent | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

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