lack
Significado (English)
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- A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
- (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
Synonyms
be short of
be missing
be absent
be short
not have
require
lack of
be deficient
be lacking
destitution
be without
be in need of
I don’t have
I lack
run out of
weak point
be deficient in
be in need
be out of
be wanting
not to have
run short of
be insufficient
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 away
do not have
negative quantity
non-availability
not exist
Freqüência
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/læk/
Etimologia (English)
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.
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