lacking

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlækɪŋ/

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Verb

lacking

1. present participle and gerund of lack

Noun

lacking (plural lackings)

1. The absence of something that is desirable or otherwise ought to be present.

   Synonym: lack

   Hypernym: absence

   • 1914, Sax Rohmer, The Romance of Sorcery:

     Cagliostro, however, whatever his moral lackings, did not lack spirit; he was not the man to succumb to this kind of coercion.

Translations

absence of something — see lack

Adjective

lacking (comparative more lacking, superlative most lacking)

1. Missing or not having enough of (a good quality, etc).

   Hypernym: absent

   This cheese is lacking in pungency.

   The team was lacking in stamina and lost the match decidedly.

   A few of the pieces of this jigsaw puzzle are lacking.

Derived terms

• catch lacking
• lackingly

Translations

missing or not having enough of something — see also deprived

• Catalan: mancat (ca), desproveït (ca), freturós (ca) m, freturosa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不足 (zh) (bùzú), 缺乏 (zh) (quēfá), 欠缺 (zh) (qiànquē)

• Finnish: puutteellinen (fi) (more often with verb phrase using puuttua)
• French: dépourvu (fr)
• German: no equivalent term in German, but see -los (de) (-less), mangeln (de) (verb), mangelhaft (de) (insufficient)
• Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐍃 (wans)
• Greek: ελλιπής (el) (ellipís), ανεπαρκής (el) (aneparkís)
• Irish: de dhíth
• Italian: sprovvisto (it)
• Japanese: いまいち (ja) (imaichi)
• Latin: dēlicuus
• Mansaka: kolang
• Middle English: bareyne
• Polish: pozbawiony
• Portuguese: desprovido (pt)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Sanskrit: ऊन (sa) (ūna)
• Spanish: falto​/​carente​​/​desprovisto [with de]
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: اكسیك (eksik), نقصان (noksan)

Derived terms

• lackingness

Anagrams

• Glackin, calking