lack

Signification (English)

Noun

1. A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
2. (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.

Verb

1. To be without, not to have, to need, to require.
2. To be short (of or for something).
3. (obsolete) To be in want.
4. (obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.

Concepts

manquer

manque

défaut

insuffisance

manquer de

pénurie

privation

ne pas avoir

absence

avoir besoin de

carence

pauvreté

il n’a pas

être à court

je n’ai pas

manque de

échouer

être privé

déficit

déficience

rater

rester en arrière

souffrance

vice

desirer

être dépourvu

indigence

manque d’eau

défectuosité

besoin

rester à la traîne

être dénué

faire défaut

être absent

faute

essoreuse à rouleaux

douleur

négliger

Synonyms

shortage

deficiency

want

absence

scarcity

need

dearth

shortcoming

miss

deficit

insufficiency

defect

short of

poverty

flaw

be short of

privation

inadequacy

be missing

be absent

be short

not have

require

shortfall

vacancy

gap

lack of

fail

scantiness

be deficient

failure

without

deprivation

be lacking

missing

destitution

be without

be in need of

absent

omission

indigence

I don’t have

I lack

paucity

default

misery

requirement

scantness

failing

few

🤏

little

fault

famine

shortness

run out

run out of

scant

scarce

short

sketchiness

skimpiness

smallness

starvation

straits

suffer

take away

tenuous

un

void

wanting

wart

weakness

weak point

be deficient in

be in need

be out of

be wanting

chime in

diss

in need

not to have

run short of

stay behind

non-

be insufficient

bereavement

crack

be inadequate

be defective

be devoid of

be incomplete

be meager

be scanty

shortage of food

chisel in

derth

fail in

shortage of water

default of

have run out of

be

be away

beggary

blemish

break

bug

🐛

chip

dark

decrease

delinquency

demerit

desire

diminish

distress

do not have

drawback

eclipse

ellipse

elsewhere

end

🔚

forfeit

forfeiture

gloomy

handicap

hardship

hole

🕳️

inadequate

insufficient

interfere

intervene

lacking

less

lessen

limit

lose

make a mistake

mangle

meagerness

naught

necessary

neediness

negation

negative quantity

non-availability

non-existence

nonfeasance

not exist

nothing

out

owe

pauperism

perversion

reduce

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/læk/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: lack

Inherited from ancien anglais: *læc

Cognate with saterlandais: Lak

Cognate with Middle Low German: lack

Cognate with néerlandais: lak

Cognate with islandais: lakur

Cognate with moyen néerlandais: laken

Inherited from moyen anglais: lacken

Inherited from ancien anglais: læccian

Cognate with Old Frisian: lakia

Cognate with Middle Low German: lacken

Cognate with néerlandais: laken

In summary

From Middle English lack, lakke, lak, from Old English *læc (“deficiency, lack, want”), from Proto-West Germanic *lak, from Proto-Germanic *laką, *lakaz (“slackness”), from Proto-Germanic *lakaz (“limp, slack, loose, low”), related to *lak(k)ōną (“to blame, reproach”), from Proto-Indo-European *lok-néh₂-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Lak (“lack”), Middle Low German lack, lak (“lack”), Dutch lak (“lack, deficiency, calumny”), Icelandic lakur (“lacking”). Related also to Middle Dutch laken (“to blame, lack”).
Eclipsed non-native Middle English carence (“absence, lack”), from Old French carence.

Phrases

The lack of more than two shutter speeds was not a problem .

L'absence de plus de deux vitesses d'obturation n'était pas un problème.