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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"

Synonyms:

• absence,
• adulteration,
• arrearage,
• awayness,
• bare cupboard,
• bare subsistence,
• be found wanting,
• be in want,
• be insufficient,
• be pinched,
• be poor,
• beggarliness,
• beggary,
• blank,
• break,
• collapse,
• come short,
• dearth,
• decline,
• defalcation,
• default,
• defect,
• defectibility,
• defectiveness,
• deficiency,
• deficit,
• deprivation,
• destitution,
• discontinuity,
• drought,
• empty purse,
• erroneousness,
• fail,
• fail of,
• fall away,
• fall short,
• fall shy,
• fallibility,
• famine,
• faultiness,
• gap,
• go on welfare,
• grinding poverty,
• gripe,
• hand-to-mouth existence,
• hiatus,
• homelessness,
• immaturity,
• impairment,
• imperfection,
• impoverishment,
• impurity,
• inaccuracy,
• inadequacy,
• inadequateness,
• incompleteness,
• indigence,
• inexactitude,
• inexactness,
• insufficiency,
• interval,
• kick the beam,
• lacuna,
• lag,
• lose ground,
• mediocrity,
• mendicancy,
• miss,
• missing link,
• moneylessness,
• necessitousness,
• necessity,
• need,
• neediness,
• neverness,
• nonexistence,
• nonoccurrence,
• nonpresence,
• not answer,
• not hack it,
• not make it,
• not make out,
• not measure up,
• not qualify,
• not stretch,
• not suffice,
• nowhereness,
• omission,
• outage,
• patchiness,
• paucity,
• pauperism,
• pauperization,
• penury,
• pinch,
• privation,
• require,
• run short,
• run short of,
• scantiness,
• scarcity,
• shortage,
• shortcoming,
• shortfall,
• sketchiness,
• slump,
• starvation,
• starve,
• stop short,
• subtraction,
• ullage,
• underage,
• undevelopment,
• unevenness,
• unperfectedness,
• unsoundness,
• want,
• wantage