What does lacking mean?
Definitions for lacking
lack·ing
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word lacking.
Princeton's WordNet
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.
Webster Dictionary
Lacking
of Lack
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
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.
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Anagrams for lacking »
calking
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
One thing that is important for me is inclusivity, diversity and representation. It’s something I did not have growing up and is still lacking in today’s world, today I am a proud transgender woman of color. Personally, I’ve learned that my differences do not make me less than, it makes me more than.
Sadly, Senate Democrats have undermined the American people’s confidence in previous judicial confirmation processes with vicious personal smears and unfounded accusations, these kinds of shameless attacks demeaned the Senate and made a mockery of our constitutional role in providing advice and consent to the president on nominations. I believe Judge Jackson should be treated with the dignity and decorum that has been lacking from the consideration of past nominations.
A sense of urgency seems to be lacking. More of that would be desirable ... You can't hang on to something forever when everybody knows it's an unwanted asset, they are quite good at promises. Delivery tends to be slower than you would be happy with.
Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically, the EU is an attempt to do this by different methods. But fundamentally what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe.
That's a very ambitious target, but the implementation is lacking a good progress, and very contradictory policies are in place, just to give you one example, the building sector in United Kingdom is a real problem, yet just recently, the government scrapped its Green Homes scheme, a £ 1.5 billion( $ 2 billion) commitment to support home owners to improve the insulation in their homes, so this doesn't really make sense.
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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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