Word Finder - lacked

definition

To be without, to need, to require.

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My life lacks excitement.

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To be short (of or for something).

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He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.

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To be in want.

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To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.

We just lacked these means to do it before.

His smile lacked sincerity.

I guess we both lacked experience.

I realized those receiving our tips lacked a reason to share our absolute confidence.

Maybe she lacked taste, but she knew what she liked.

It lacked only half a minute now.

And so the fun went on until the clock showed that it lacked only ten minutes till school would be dismissed.

He was an excellent speaker and unabashedly told the gathering how he'd found the local sheriff's office in disarray and how it lacked up-to-date tools to deal with modern problems.

There was a gentle air around the woman, and her large brown eyes lacked the rigid stoniness of her husband's.

Besides, Edith had the pen in her possession so he lacked any opportunity to change it back to the color she used years earlier when she wrote the suicide note.

That marriage lacked the dual significance it should have had.

The truth was, Carmen lacked the confidence to make decisions.

It was balanced perilously between a small town that lacked only a sheriff, and a booming frontier town.

Poor Martha lacked even a minimal paper trail on her short, disjointed life.

The rulers of Austria lacked the the close prestige which attached to the electoral office, and, of the although five of them had held the position of German middle king, the four who preceded Maximilian had added ages.

What the authorities lacked was vision.

It lacked only one minute till the bell would strike the time for dismissal.

Francis, who had been the early friend of Burke, supplied him with the personal animus against Hastings, and with the knowledge of detail, which he might otherwise have lacked.

The transference of the seat of government to Jibuti in May 1896 and the building of the railway to Harrar gave the protectorate a stability which it had previously lacked.

The diseases of children have not lacked the renewed attention, the successful investigation, and the valuable new lights which have been given to other departments of medicine.

Hotheaded and impulsive, he lacked judgment.

Here, then, was the central body, under their direct control, which inhabitants of London had hitherto lacked.

The disproportionate height and narrowness of the building lend it a certain distinction which otherwise it would have lacked.

Even now, when his authority was at its highest, when his fame filled the land, and the vast cathedral and its precincts lacked space for the crowds flocking to hear him, his enemies were secretly preparing his downfall.

The Roman empire of the German nation was indeed less universal and less theocratic under Otto, its restorer, than under Charlemagne, but what it lacked in splendour it gained in stability.

The ordinary citizens were roused to assert their rights, and they found a leader in Vincenz Fettmilch, who carried the contest to dangerous excesses, but lacked ability to bring it to a successful issue.

Two faults, however, marred the workfirst, the shapes were clumsy and unpleasing, being copied from bronzes whose solidity justified forms unsuited to thin enamelled vessels; secondly, the colors, sombre and somewhat impure, lacked the glow and mellowness that give decorative superiority to the technically inferior Chinese enamels of the later Ming and early Tsing eras.

Holstenius was a man of unwearied industry and immense learning, but he lacked the persistency to carry out the vast literary schemes he had planned.

In formulating these facts Liebig at first retained the dualistic conception of the structure of acids; but he shortly afterwards perceived that this view lacked generality since the halogen acids, which contained no oxygen but yet formed salts exactly similar in properties to those containing oxygen, could not be so regarded.

While he lacked in diplomacy the arts of a Louis XIV.

The creed in all its forms lies behind worship, which it preserves from idolatry, and behind ethics, to which it supplies a motive power which the pre-Christian system so manifestly lacked.

Although he lacked oratorical fluency, his short speeches, like his writings, were forceful; his plain dress and unassuming ways helped to make him extremely popular with the common people, in whom he had much greater faith than his cousin John had; and, above all, he was an eminently successful manager of men.

Trajan never lacked money to expend on great works of public utility; as a builder, he may fairly be compared with Augustus.

Whatever great qualities he may have lacked he certainly possessed industry and patience in the highest degree.

He was not a great original thinker; he lacked the creative faculty and the creative impulse.

But he lacked business thrift, inherited a disposition to endorse for his friends, and was often unable to distinguish between deserving applicants for aid and adventurers.

But Rousseau had not, like Montesquieu, a position which guaranteed him from serious danger; he was not wealthy like Helvetius; he had not the wonderful suppleness and trickiness which even without his wealth would probably have defended Voltaire himself; and he lacked entirely the "bottom" of Freron and Diderot.

In person he somewhat resembled Napoleon, but utterly lacked his strength and energy.

But the Montagnards made up by their fanatical, or desperate, energy and boldness for what they lacked in talent or in numbers.

Thus there survived in mid-Asia a widely-scattered remnant, which, although out of touch with the ancient usages of Christian civilization, yet in no way lacked higher culture.

The churches of the Lombards, West Goths, Franks and Anglo-Saxons, all counted themselves parts of the Catholic Church; but the Catholic Church had altered its condition; it lacked the power of organization, and split up into territorial churches.

In 1563 he was sent to Spain, where his natural abilities were improved by a good education, but he lacked the frank and tolerant spirit of his father, resembling rather his uncle Philip II.

Meade, who, besides steadiness and ability, possessed the confidence of Lincoln and Halleck which Hooker had lacked.

For a long time Biblical study lacked the first essential of sound critical method, viz.

On one occasion when he expressed a fear that he lacked all the gifts of a courtier, Napoleon replied, "Courtiers!

First, and chiefly, it lacked a religious founder; second, it could not tell how the state of inward peace and blessedness could become permanent; third, it had no means to win those who were not endowed with the speculative faculty.

In Giftas (" Married," 1884) he produced twelve stories of married life to support his view of the sex question; this was followed in 1886 by a second collection with the same title, which was written in a more violent tone and lacked some of the art of the earlier attack.

At home Mazarin's policy lacked the strength of Richelieu's.

He lacked the finish of systematic education.

The object of this proposal was to give effect to the idea that the existing " permanent " court lacked the essential characteristics of national courts of justice in not being ready at all times to hear cases, and in needing to be specially constituted for every case submitted to it.