Lack vs. Lacking — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Lack and Lacking
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Lack
Deficiency or absence
Lack of funding brought the project to a halt.
Lacking
Deficiency or absence
Lack of funding brought the project to a halt.
Lack
A particular deficiency or absence
Owing to a lack of supporters, the reforms did not succeed.
Lacking
A particular deficiency or absence
Owing to a lack of supporters, the reforms did not succeed.
Lack
To be without or in need of
Lacked the strength to lift the box.
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Lacking
To be without or in need of
Lacked the strength to lift the box.
Lack
To be missing or deficient
We suspected that he was lying, but proof was lacking.
Lacking
To be missing or deficient
We suspected that he was lying, but proof was lacking.
Lack
To be in need of something
She does not lack for friends.
Lacking
To be in need of something
She does not lack for friends.
Lack
A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
Lacking
Present participle of lack
Lack
(obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
Lacking
The absence of something; a lack.
Lack
(transitive) To be without, to need, to require.
My life lacks excitement.
Lacking
Missing or not having enough of (a good quality, etc).
This cheese is lacking in pungency.
Lack
(intransitive) To be short (of or for something).
He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.
Lacking
Not existing;
Innovation has been sadly lacking
Character development is missing from the book
Lack
To be in want.
Lacking
Inadequate in amount or degree;
A deficient education
Deficient in common sense
Lacking in stamina
Tested and found wanting
Lack
(obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.
Lack
Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.
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.
Lack
To blame; to find fault with.
Love them and lakke them not.
Lack
To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God.
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.
Lack
To be in want.
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger.
Lack
Exclamation of regret or surprise.
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
Lack
Be without;
This soup lacks salt
There is something missing in my jewellery box!
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