lack
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Is lack a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of lack?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.Examples: "In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned."countableobsoleteuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive, stative) To be without, not to have, to need, to require.Examples: "My life lacks excitement."; "More flak was aimed at the Treasury's apparent lack of marketing skills, when it was argued that its idea of how to sell tickets was along the lines of "you can get two tickets for the price of two", and it lacks the sales and promotional skills of the train operating companies which are needed to boost revenue."stativetransitive
2. (intransitive) To be short (of or for something).Examples: "He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money."; "Hamlet. What hour now? Horatio. I think it lacks of twelve."intransitive
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in want.Examples: "The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger […]"intransitiveobsolete
4. (obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.Examples: "That is Mede þe Mayde quod she · hath noyed me ful oft / And ylakked my lemman."obsolete
5. (African-American Vernacular) To be off one's guard.Examples: "His opps caught him lacking."
Definition source: Wiktionary