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deficient, lacking(p), wanting(p)adjective
inadequate in amount or degree
"a deficient education"; "deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested and found wanting"
lacking, absent, missing, wantingadjective
nonexistent
"the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking"

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lacking
Lacking refers to the state or condition of being without or not having enough of something; deficiency in quantity or quality, insufficiency, or absence. It can also denote a situation where there is a need of something desired or deemed necessary.

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Lacking
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LACKING
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Lacking is ranked #147253 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

The Lacking surname appeared 112 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Lacking.

93.7% or 105 total occurrences were Black.

Usage in printed sourcesFrom:

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Numerology

Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of lacking in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of lacking in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of lacking in a Sentence

Ben Carson:
There’s no question this country is in very dire straits. the whole leadership issue is lacking. Ben Carson also embraced the large GOP field, saying it will give voters.
Brandon Miller:
Sometimes, it may appear that a storm is in a perfect environment for a tornado to form, yet it never does. Conversely, tornadoes frequently form in marginal environments where it seems like one or more' ingredients' to storm formation is missing or lacking.
Mariana Fulger:
Where education is lacking, there is savagery, there is a lot of naivety.
Carl Jung:
Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Ron Wyden:
Clearly, they have a clear decision to make. Do they want to reach out and support policies that would be beneficial to everybody, which would be that you would have to have the bipartisanship that was so dramatically lacking in the health care debate? this administration never had one substantive conversation with me about health care reform.

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^ Princeton's WordNet
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=lacking
^ ChatGPT
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^ Webster Dictionary
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lacking
^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
^ Usage in printed sources
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=lacking

Translations for lacking

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تفتقر إلىArabic
chybíCzech
manglerDanish
fehltGerman
λείπειGreek
careciendoSpanish
فاقدPersian
puuttuvaFinnish
manqueFrench
कमीHindi
hiányzóHungarian
kurangIndonesian
carenteItalian
נָטוּלHebrew
欠けていますJapanese
deestLatin
ontbrekendDutch
manglerNorwegian
brakujePolish
em faltaPortuguese
lipsitRomanian
не хватаетRussian
saknasSwedish
குறைTamil
ขาดแคลนThai
eksikTurkish
не вистачаєUkrainian
کمیUrdu
thiếu xótVietnamese
פעלנדיקYiddish
不Chinese

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