lack

lack is a 4-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, interjection, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.
2. noun. Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food.
3. transitive verb. To blame; to find fault with.
4. transitive verb. To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.
5. intransitive verb. To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc.
6. intransitive verb. To be in want.
7. interjection. Exclamation of regret or surprise.
8. noun. 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"

   Synonyms: deficiency, want

9. verb. be without

   "This soup lacks salt"

   "There is something missing in my jewelry box!"

   Synonyms: miss

Synonyms

deficiency, want, miss

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lack:

calk, kcal

Common word forms

lacks, lacked, lacker, lacking

Words from these letters

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