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| Main Entry: | lacking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wanting, deficient |
| Synonyms: | can't cut it, coming up short, defective, deprived of, flawed, impaired, inadequate, incomplete, minus, missing, needed, needing, not hacking it, not making it, sans, short, without |
| Antonyms: | abundant, enough, having, profuse, sufficient |
| 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: | bankrupt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unable to pay debts |
| Synonyms: | broke, depleted, destitute, exhausted, impoverished, insolvent, lacking, lost, out of business, ruined, spent, failed, in Chapter 11, tapped out |
| Antonyms: | rich, solvent, wealthy |
| Main Entry: | below par |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | second-rate in quality |
| Synonyms: | below average, imperfect, inferior, lacking, off, poor, substandard, under the weather*, wanting, not oneself, off-form |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | defective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | broken, not working |
| Synonyms: | abnormal, amiss, damaged, deficient, faulty, impaired, imperfect, inadequate, incomplete, injured, insufficient, lacking, out of order, poor, sick, unfinished, unhealthy, unsound, wanting, blemished, flawed, on the bum, seconds, subnormal |
| Notes: | defective means having a defect or fault, while deficient means inadequate or lacking in amount or degree |
| Antonyms: | excellent, faultless, flawless, perfect, unbroken |
| Main Entry: | deficient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imperfect, inadequate |
| Synonyms: | amiss, bad, damaged, defective, exiguous, faulty, impaired, incomplete, inferior, infrequent, injured, insufficient, lacking, meager, rare, scanty*, scarce, second fiddle*, second string, short, shy, sketchy, skimpy, unequal, unfinished, unsatisfactory, wanting, weak, flawed, found wanting, marred, not cut out for, not enough, not make it, not up to scratch, outta gas, scant, third string, unassembled |
| Antonyms: | adequate, ample, enough, excessive, faultless, flawless, perfect, satisfactory, sufficient, superfluous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | destitute |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | down and out; wanting |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, bereft, deficient, depleted, drained, empty, exhausted, flat*, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, insolvent, lacking, needy, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken, stony, strapped, stripped, without, beggared, busted, dead broke, deprived of, devoid of, dirt poor, divested, flat broke, in need of, moneyless, necessitous, on the breadline, on the rocks, pinched, played out, totaled, wiped out |
| Antonyms: | lucky, prosperous, rich, secure, wealthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | devoid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | empty, wanting |
| Synonyms: | bare, barren, bereft, deficient, destitute, innocent, lacking, needed, vacant, void, without, denuded, free from, sans, unprovided with |
| Antonyms: | complete, filled, full |
| Main Entry: | except |
| Part of Speech: | preposition |
| Definition: | other than |
| Synonyms: | aside from, bar, barring, besides, but, exclusive of, lacking, minus, omitting, save, saving, without, apart from, excepting, excluding, exempting, if not, leaving out, not for, outside of, rejecting, short of, with the exception of |
| Main Entry: | gauche |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tactless, unsophisticated |
| Synonyms: | awkward, clumsy, crude, graceless, green, halting, heavy-handed, ignorant, ill-mannered, inelegant, inept, insensitive, lacking, maladroit, oafish, uncouth, uncultured, unhappy, unpolished, wooden*, bumbling, ham-handed, ill-bred |
| Antonyms: | elegant, graceful, mannerly, polished, refined, sophisticated, tactful, tasteful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gone |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not present, no longer in existence |
| Synonyms: | absent, astray, away, dead, deceased, defunct, departed, displaced, dissipated, done, down the drain*, ended, extinct, finished, lacking, left, lost, missing, moved, over, past, quit, removed, retired, spent, split, transferred, traveling, vanished, withdrawn, AWOL, burned up, consumed, decamped, disappeared, disintegrated, dissolved, dried up, elapsed, flown, no more, nonextant, not a sign of, not here, out the window, passed, run-off, shifted, taken a powder, taken leave, turned to dust |
| Antonyms: | around, current, existing, present, working |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inadequate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | defective, insufficient, incompetent |
| Synonyms: | bare, barren, bush-league*, deficient, depleted, dry, failing, faulty, feeble, glitch*, imperfect, impotent, inapt, incapable, incommensurate, incompetent, incomplete, insubstantial, junk*, lacking, lame*, lemon*, lousy, low, meager, minus, miserly, parsimonious, poor, scanty, scarce, short, shy*, sketchy*, skimpy*, small, spare, sparse, sterile, stunted*, thin*, unequal, unproductive, unqualified, weak, found wanting, inappreciable, inconsiderable, niggardly, not enough, stinted, too little |
| Antonyms: | able, adequate, competent, enough, sufficient |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incomplete |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfinished, wanting |
| Synonyms: | broken, crude, defective, deficient, fractional, fragmentary, immature, imperfect, inadequate, incoherent, insufficient, lacking, meager, part, partial, rough, rude, rudimentary, short, sketchy, undeveloped, undone, unpolished, abridged, expurgated, garbled, half-done, unaccomplished, unconsummated, under construction, unexecuted |
| Antonyms: | accomplished, complete, finished, perfect |
| Main Entry: | inconclusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | up in the air |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, deficient, incomplete, indecisive, indeterminate, lacking, open, uncertain, unconvincing, undecided, uneventful, unfinished, unsatisfactory, unsettled, vague, unfateful |
| Antonyms: | certain, conclusive, decisive, definite, sure |
| Main Entry: | less |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | smaller, inferior |
| Synonyms: | beneath, deficient, depressed, lacking, lesser, limited, lower, minor, minus, negative, reduced, secondary, shorter, subordinate, unsubstantial, without, declined, diminished, excepting, fewer, not as great, shortened, slighter, subtracting |
| Antonyms: | more, superior, bigger |
| Main Entry: | missing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gone, absent |
| Synonyms: | astray, away, lacking, lost, mislaid, misplaced, omitted, removed, short, wanting, AWOL, disappeared, left behind, left out, not present, nowhere to be found, unaccounted for |
| Antonyms: | found, here, present |
| Main Entry: | penniless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without any money |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, broke*, clean*, destitute, flat*, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, lacking, needy, over a barrel*, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken, ruined, strapped*, cleaned out, dead broke, dirt poor, down to last penny, flat broke, in the gutter, moneyless, necessitous, on last leg, tapped out, without a dime |
| Antonyms: | affluent, rich, wealthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unfinished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not completed |
| Synonyms: | amateurish, bare, crude, cut short, defective, deficient, dilettante, faulty, formless, fragmentary, half-baked*, immature, imperfect, incomplete, lacking, natural, plain, raw, rough, shapeless, sketchy, tentative, unadorned, undeveloped, undone, unpolished, unrefined, wanting, dabbling, found wanting, half-done, in the making, in the rough, not done, roughhewn, unaccomplished, unassembled, uncompleted, unconcluded, under construction, unexecuted, unfashioned, unfulfilled, unperfected |
| Antonyms: | completed, finished, polished, refined, whole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unsure |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doubtful, insecure |
| Synonyms: | borderline, distrustful, dubious, fly-by-night*, hesitant, iffy*, indecisive, indeterminate, irresolute, lacking, open, problematic, shaky, skeptical, suspicious, uncertain, unclear, undecided, undependable, unreliable, unstable, untrustworthy, vacillating, wavering, weak, wobbly, betwixt and between, fluctuant, in a quandary, mistrustful, rootless, touch and go, unassured, unconfident, unconvinced, untrusty, up for grabs, wimpy |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, secure, sure, undoubted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | empty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | containing nothing |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, bare, barren, blank, clear, dead, deflated, depleted, desert, deserted, desolate, destitute, devoid, dry, exhausted, forsaken, godforsaken*, hollow, lacking, stark, unfilled, uninhabited, unoccupied, vacant, vacuous, void, wanting, waste, despoiled, evacuated, unfurnished, vacated |
| Antonyms: | complete, entire, filled, full, replete, satisfied, sated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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