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lacks - 20 thesaurus results
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
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: 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
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
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
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
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
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