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How to pronounce lacking in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms absent, missing, wanting


her appetite was lacking.
Type Words
Synonyms deficient, wanting


lacking in stamina.

Examples of lacking

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Thus, the Rams enjoyed a continuity there that had been lacking in recent years.
From the stltoday.com
They'll accuse each other of lacking a realistic plan to deal with Col. Gadhafi.
From the post-gazette.com
All that is lacking is a firm decision to commit the U.S. to a course of action.
From the buzz.yahoo.com
However, lacking empathy with your social media audience will guarantee failure.
From the forbes.com
The Sharks were fighting to avoid being stamped chokers, flops lacking in heart.
From the sfgate.com
He said what has been lacking until now is evidence of the people who used them.
From the independent.co.uk
This is a combination that has been lacking until now in modern interior design.
From the sciencedaily.com
Duncan was efficient, but restricted enough so that his performance was lacking.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
That just shows how overleveraged and lacking a firm foundation that economy is.
From the economist.com
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  • Deficient: inadequate in amount or degree; "a deficient education"; "deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested and found wanting"
  • Nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking"
  • (lack) miss: be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewelry box!"
  • (lack) the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost"
  • u0141u0105ck (1943u20131945, German Lonsch) is a village in Pu0142ock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina u0141u0105ck. It lies approximately 11 kilometres (7u00A0mi) south-west of Pu0142ock and 99u00A0km (62u00A0mi) west of Warsaw.
  • (Lack (manque)) Lack (in French, manque), is, in Lacan's psychoanalytic philosophy, always related to desire. In his seminar Le transfert (1960-61) he states that lack is what causes desire to arise.
  • Henrietta Lacks (nu00E9e Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 u2013 October 4, 1951) was an African American woman who was the unwitting donor of cells from her cancerous tumor that was biopsied during treatment for cervical cancer at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, USA...
  • (lack) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy; A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want; To be without, to need, to require; To be short (of or for something)
  • (Lack) Not have enough of something what is needed or wanted.