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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: | absence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of lacking something needed or usual |
| Synonyms: | dearth, deficiency, drought, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, need, omission, privation, void, want, unavailability |
| Antonyms: | abundance, enough, plenty |
| 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: | demand |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | require |
| Synonyms: | ask, call for, command, crave, fail, involve, lack, necessitate, need, oblige, take, want, cry out for |
| Antonyms: | give, present, supply |
| 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: | disadvantage(s) |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty, trouble |
| Synonyms: | bar, burden, defect, deficiency, deprivation, detriment, disability, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, hamper, handicap, hardship, hindrance, impediment, imperfection, imposition, inadequacy, inconvenience, lack, liability, limitation, minus, nuisance, objection, obstacle, privation, problem, restraint, snag, stumbling block*, weakness, adverse circumstance, blocking, discommodity, fly in the ointment, inutility, weak point |
| Antonyms: | advantage, good fortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | fault |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical defect |
| Synonyms: | blemish, debility, deficiency, demerit, imperfection, infirmity, lack, pimple, shortcoming, weakness, zit*, weak point |
| Antonyms: | perfection, soundness, strength |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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