Thesaurus:lack

Thesaurus

lack

English

Noun

Sense: an absence of something essential or important

Synonyms

• dearth
• deficiency
• deficit
• inadequacy
• infrequency
• insufficiency
• meagerness
• nonsufficiency
• lack
• paucity
• penury
• rareness    [⇒ thesaurus]
• rarity    [⇒ thesaurus]
• scantiness
• scarcity
• shortage
• shortcoming
• unsufficiency
• want

Antonyms

• adequacy    [⇒ thesaurus]
• excess    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• apathy    [⇒ thesaurus]
• cowardice    [⇒ thesaurus]
• poverty    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:abundant

Further reading

• “640. insufficiency” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “lack” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.