Sorry, no online dictionaries contain the exact phrase to be lacking.
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1. deficient
 2. inadequate
3. insufficient
4. wanting
5. empty
6. defeatism
7. do nothing
8. failed
9. inadequacy
10. ineffective
 11. ineffectual
12. inefficiency
13. no-account
14. no-good
15. no good
16. no use
17. nugatory
18. omissive
19. self-defeating
20. short
 21. solitary
22. underworked
23. unsatisfactory
24. unsignificant
25. unworthy
26. useless
27. wrong
28. abortive
29. absence
30. absent-minded
 31. absentminded
32. abstract
33. awl
34. disadvantageous
35. disagreeable
36. effectless
37. frustraneous

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