lack

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

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

Verb

1. (stative, transitive) To be without, not to have, to need, to require.
2. (intransitive) To be short (of or for something).
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in want.
4. (obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.
5. To be off one's guard.

Concetti

mancanza

mancare

insufficienza

carenza

assenza

scarsità

difetto

strettezza

necessitare

essere assente

difettare

penuria

carestia

mancare di

ristrettezza

ritardare

scarseggiare

sofferenza

avere bisogno

non avere

miserià

mancanza di forza

non essere sufficiente

abbisognare

non essere presente

debolezza

essere

fame

necessità

rimanere

soffrire

deficenza

patimento

patire

povertà

privo

richiedere

rimanere indietro

Opposto di

glut, surplus, plethora

sinonimi

shortage

deficiency

want

absence

scarcity

need

shortcoming

dearth

miss

deficit

defect

insufficiency

short of

flaw

poverty

be short of

privation

inadequacy

be missing

be short

shortfall

not have

gap

be absent

require

vacancy

without

scantiness

deprivation

failure

lack of

fail

be deficient

be in need of

be lacking

shortness

indigence

destitution

absent

I don’t have

requirement

paucity

omission

missing

scantness

few

🤏

fault

famine

failing

default

Traduzioni

manquer

manque

Mangel

falta

fehlen

faltar

gebrek

carencia

carecer

entbehren

missen

ontberen

gemis

défaut

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/læk/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: lack

Ereditato da inglese antico: *læc

Affine saterfriesisch: Lak

Affine Middle Low German: lack

Affine olandese: lak

Affine islandese: lakur

Affine olandese medio: laken

Ereditato da inglese medio: lacken

Ereditato da inglese antico: læccian

Affine Old Frisian: lakia

Affine Middle Low German: lacken

Affine olandese: 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.

Frasi

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

La mancanza di più di due velocità dell'otturatore non era un problema.