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| Main Entry: | lack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficiency, need |
| Synonyms: | abridgement, absence, curtailment, dearth, decrease, default, defect, deficit, depletion, deprivation, destitution, distress, exigency, inadequacy, inferiority, insufficiency, loss, meagerness, miss, necessity, paucity, poverty, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, shrinkage, shrinking, stint, want, exiguity, insufficience, retrenchment, scantiness, shortness, slightness |
| Antonyms: | abundance, enough, excess, extra, lot, plenty, plethora, profusion, surplus |
| Main Entry: | lack |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do not have |
| Synonyms: | minus, miss, need, out, require, want, be deficient in, be short of, be without, have need of, hurting for, not got, too little too late |
| Antonyms: | have |
| Main Entry: | bankruptcy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inability to pay debts |
| Synonyms: | Chapter 11*, default, destitution, disaster, exhaustion, failure, indebtedness, indigence, lack, loss, nonpayment, privation, repudiation, ruin, defalcation, destituteness, insolvency, liquidation, overdraft, pauperism, ruination |
| Antonyms: | richness, solvency, wealth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | call for |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demand; entail |
| Synonyms: | inquire, involve, lack, necessitate, need, occasion, request, require, suggest, want, ask for |
| Main Entry: | dearth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insufficiency, scarcity |
| Synonyms: | absence, default, defect, deficiency, famine, inadequacy, infrequency, lack, meagerness, miss, need, paucity, poverty, privation, shortage, want, exiguousness, rareness, scantiness, scantness, slim pickings, sparsity, uncommonness |
| Antonyms: | abundance, excess, plenty, sufficiency, plentifulness |
| Main Entry: | default |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | failure; want |
| Synonyms: | absence, blemish, blunder, dearth, defect, deficiency, delinquency, dereliction, disregard, error, fault, imperfection, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, lapse, miss, neglect, nonpayment, offense, omission, oversight, privation, shortcoming, slight, transgression, vice, weakness, wrongdoing, overlooking |
| Antonyms: | advantage, payment, perfection, satisfaction, success |
| Main Entry: | defect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blemish, imperfection |
| Synonyms: | birthmark, blot, blotch, break, bug, catch, check, crack, deficiency, deformity, discoloration, drawback, error, failing, fault, flaw, foible, frailty, gap, glitch, gremlin, hole, infirmity, injury, irregularity, kink, knot, lack, mark, mistake, patch, rift, scar, scarcity, scratch, seam, second, shortage, shortcoming, sin, speck, spot, stain, taint, vice, want, weakness, marring, rough spot, unsoundness, weak point |
| Antonyms: | advantage, improvement, perfection, strength |
| Main Entry: | defection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandonment |
| Synonyms: | alienation, deficiency, dereliction, desertion, disaffection, disloyalty, divorce, estrangement, failing, failure, faithlessness, lack, parting, rebellion, rejection, repudiation, retreat, revolt, separation, withdrawal, apostasy, backsliding, disownment, forsaking, recreancy, severance, sundering, tergiversation |
| Antonyms: | joining |
| Main Entry: | deficiency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imperfection, inadequacy |
| Synonyms: | absence, bug*, dearth, default, defect, deficit, demerit, dereliction, failing, failure, fault, flaw, frailty, glitch*, insufficiency, lack, loss, need, neglect, paucity, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, sin, want, weakness, defalcation, inability to hack it, insufficience, scantiness |
| Antonyms: | adequacy, enough, perfection, plenty, satisfaction, sufficiency, superfluity, faultlessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deficit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shortage of something needed, required |
| Synonyms: | arrears, default, deficiency, dues, in the red, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, loss, paucity, shortcoming, shortfall, dead horse, defalcation, due bill, in hock, in the hole, insufficience, red ink, scantiness, underage |
| Antonyms: | enough, excess, plenty, superfluousness |
| Main Entry: | disability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disadvantage, restriction |
| Synonyms: | affliction, ailment, defect, detriment, disqualification, drawback, inability, incapacity, infirmity, injury, lack, weakness, impairment, incompetency, inexperience, invalidity, unfitness |
| Notes: | debility is the state of being weak in health or body; disability is the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; inability is lack of mental ability or physical ability to do something |
| Antonyms: | advantage, fitness, strength |
| Main Entry: | disqualification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disability; rejection for participation |
| Synonyms: | awkwardness, clumsiness, elimination, exclusion, incapacity, incompetence, ineptitude, lack, debarment, disenablement, disentitlement, incapacitation, incompetency, ineligibility, unfitness, unproficiency |
| Antonyms: | ability, aptitude, capability |
| Main Entry: | drawback |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disadvantage |
| Synonyms: | check, defect, deficiency, detriment, difficulty, disability, evil, failing, fault, flaw, handicap, hindrance, hitch, ill, impediment, imperfection, inconvenience, lack, nuisance, obstacle, shortcoming, snag, stumbling block*, trouble, weakness, fly in the ointment |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, boon, extra, perfection |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drought |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dryness; shortage of supply |
| Synonyms: | dearth, deficiency, insufficiency, lack, need, scarcity, want, aridity, dehydration, desiccation, dry spell, parchedness, rainlessness |
| Antonyms: | monsoon, wetness |
| Main Entry: | go without |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deny or be denied |
| Synonyms: | abstain, do without, lack, need, want, be deprived of, fall short, go short |
| Antonyms: | earn, get, indulge, take, use |
| Main Entry: | inability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disabling lack of talent, skill |
| Synonyms: | disqualification, failure, frailty, impotence, inadequacy, incapacity, incompetence, inefficiency, ineptitude, insufficiency, lack, necessity, shortcoming, weakness, inaptitude, incapability, incapacitation, ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, inefficacy, ineptness, inutility, powerlessness, unfitness |
| Antonyms: | ability, capacity, competence, skill, talent |
| Main Entry: | inadequacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shortage, defect, inability |
| Synonyms: | blemish, dearth, deficiency, deficit, drawback, failing, flaw, imperfection, incapacity, incompetence, inefficiency, ineptitude, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, paucity, poverty, shortcoming, weakness, defalcation, defectiveness, faultiness, inadequateness, inaptness, incompetency, incompleteness, ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, inefficacy, scantiness, skimpiness, underage, unfitness, unsuitableness |
| Antonyms: | ability, adequacy, enough, plenty, sufficiency |
| Main Entry: | indifference |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | absence of feeling, interest |
| Synonyms: | alienation, apathy, carelessness, cold shoulder*, coolness, detachment, disdain, disregard, equity, immunity, impartiality, inattention, inertia, lack, lethargy, listlessness, negligence, neutrality, nonchalance, objectivity, stoicism, torpor, unconcern, aloofness, callousness, cold-bloodedness, coldness, disinterest, disinterestedness, dispassion, heedlessness, impassiveness, impassivity, insensitivity, insouciance, isolationism, noninterference, unmindfulness |
| Antonyms: | compassion, concern, feeling, interest, involvement, regard, sympathy, caring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | need |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | want something |
| Synonyms: | call for, claim, covet, crave, demand, desire, do without, exact, hanker, hunger, lack, long, lust, miss, necessitate, pine, require, thirst, wish, yearn, be deficient, be deprived, be down and out, be hard up, be in need of, be in want, be inadequate, be needy, be poor, be short, be without, die for, drive for, feel a dearth of, feel the necessity for, feel the pinch, go hungry, have occasion for, have occasion to, have use for, hurt for, suffer privation, yen for |
| Antonyms: | have, do not want |
| Main Entry: | omission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something forgotten or excluded |
| Synonyms: | blank, breach, break, cancellation, carelessness, chasm, default, disregard, elimination, exclusion, failing, failure, forgetfulness, gap, hiatus, inadvertence, lack, lacuna, lapse, missing, neglect, overlook, oversight, prohibition, repudiation, skip, slighting, slip, withholding, cutting out, disregardance, elision, excluding, ignoring, inadvertency, leaving out, noninclusion, overlooking, passing over, preclusion, preterition, pretermission |
| Antonyms: | addition, inclusion, insertion, remembrance |
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