English Online Dictionary. What means lack? What does lack mean?
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /lak/
- (US) IPA(key): /læk/
- Rhymes: -æk
Etymology 1
Middle English, cognate with or from Middle Low German lak, Middle Dutch lac (“deficiency”) and Middle Dutch laken (“blame, lack”); all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *laka-, related to *lak(k)ōn- (“to blame, reproach”), from Proto-Indo-European *lok-néh₂-. See also Dutch lak (“calumny”), Old Norse lakr (“lacking”).
Noun
lack (countable and uncountable, plural lacks)
- A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
- Antonyms: glut, surplus
- (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
lack (third-person singular simple present lacks, present participle lacking, simple past and past participle lacked)
- (transitive, stative) To be without, not to have, to need, to require.
- (intransitive) To be short (of or for something).
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be in want.
- (obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.
Derived terms
Related terms
- lackluster
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
lack (plural lacks)
- Archaic form of lakh.
- a lack of rupees
Further reading
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “lak(k)on-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 325
See also
- good lack
Anagrams
- calk, kcal
German
Pronunciation
Verb
lack
- imperative singular of lacken
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of lacken
Swedish
Etymology
From French lacre (“sealing wax”), from Portuguese laca.
Noun
lack n
- lacquer
Declension
Derived terms
- klarlack
- lacknafta
- lackskor
- nagellack
Related terms
- lackera
Adjective
lack (comparative mer lack, superlative mest lack)
- (colloquial) angry
See also
- lakk
References
- lack in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- lack in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- lack in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)