Lack vs. Alack
Difference Between Lack and Alack
Lack➦
Deficiency or absence
Lack of funding brought the project to a halt.
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Alack➦
used to express regret or dismay.
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Lack➦
A particular deficiency or absence
Owing to a lack of supporters, the reforms did not succeed.
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Alack➦
Used to express sorrow, regret, or alarm
"Whatever I long for makes me cry alack. / Whatever I wish, I quickly take it back" (Richard Wilbur).
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Lack➦
To be without or in need of
lacked the strength to lift the box.
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Alack➦
An expression of sorrow or mourning.
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Lack➦
To be missing or deficient
We suspected that he was lying, but proof was lacking.
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Alack➦
An exclamation expressive of sorrow.
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Lack➦
To be in need of something
She does not lack for friends.
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Lack➦
A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
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Lack➦
(obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
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Lack➦
(transitive) To be without, to need, to require.
My life lacks excitement.
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Lack➦
(intransitive) To be short (of or for something).
He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.
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Lack➦
To be in want.
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Lack➦
(obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.
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Lack➦
Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.
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Lack➦
Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food.
She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood.
Let his lack of years be no impediment.
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Lack➦
To blame; to find fault with.
Love them and lakke them not.
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Lack➦
To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God.
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Lack➦
To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc.
What hour now?I think it lacks of twelve.
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty.
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Lack➦
To be in want.
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger.
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Lack➦
Exclamation of regret or surprise.
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Lack➦
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
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Lack➦
be without;
This soup lacks salt
There is something missing in my jewellery box!
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