Word Type

Adjective

Verb

Noun

Adjective

The word "lacking" can be used as adjective, verb, noun and adjective.

Word Relationships

Derived Terms

catch lacking lackingness

Inflected/Variant Forms

lack

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

absence absent

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

achromatic alexithymic amorphous bare-bones beginningless cheerless foolish humorless impoverished inexperienced insubstantial mute naive silent stupid unadorned unemployed uninhabited unskilled vague weak weak-minded worthless

Related Terms

lose loss rare

Related Terms

enough firearm lack missing quality

Similar Terms

inadequate nonexistent nonexistent unequal

Synonym Network

deficient

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.