Usually means: Deficient or missing in something needed.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word Lacking:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. lacking: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lacking: Merriam-Webster
  3. lacking, lacking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lacking: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lacking: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lacking, lacking: Wordnik
  7. lacking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. lacking: Wiktionary
  9. lacking: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Lacking, lacking: Dictionary.com
  11. lacking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Lacking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. Lacking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. lacking: FreeDictionary.org
  15. lacking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. lacking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lacking: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lacking: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lacking: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lacking)

▸ noun:  The absence of something that is desirable or otherwise ought to be present.
▸ adjective:  Missing or not having enough of (a good quality, etc).

Similar:
deficient, absent, inadequate, nonexistent, wanting, missing, devoid, insufficient, bereft, adequate, more...

Opposite:
abundant, sufficient, replete, plentiful, ample

Phrases:
be lacking, lacking refinement, lacking knowledge, lacking energy, most lacking, more...

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     off-white,     taupe,     dull brown, more...



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Similar:
deficient, absent, inadequate, nonexistent, wanting, missing, devoid, insufficient, bereft, adequate, more...

Opposite:
abundant, sufficient, replete, plentiful, ample

Phrases:
be lacking, lacking refinement, lacking knowledge, lacking energy, most lacking, lacking confidence, lacking originality, lacking momentum, lacking in brightness, lacking freshness, lacking celerity, more...

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     off-white,     taupe,     dull brown, more...



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