"lacking" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈlækɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-lacking.ogg [US] Forms: more lacking [comparative], most lacking [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} lacking (comparative more lacking, superlative most lacking)
  1. Missing or not having enough of (a good quality, etc). Hyponyms: impoverished Related terms: lose, loss, rare Translations (missing or not having enough of something): mancat (Catalan), desproveït (Catalan), freturós [masculine] (Catalan), freturosa [feminine] (Catalan), 不足 (bùzú) (Chinese Mandarin), 缺乏 (quēfá) (Chinese Mandarin), 欠缺 (qiànquē) (Chinese Mandarin), puutteellinen (note: more often with verb phrase using puuttua) (Finnish), dépourvu (French), but see -los (-less) (German), mangeln [verb] (German), mangelhaft (english: insufficient) (German), 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐍃 (wans) (Gothic), sprovvisto (Italian), いまいち (imaichi) (Japanese), dēlicuus (Latin), kolang (Mansaka), bareyne (Middle English), desprovido (Portuguese), ऊन (ūna) (Sanskrit), desprovisto (Spanish), falto (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-lacking-en-adj-rqZAFojS Synonyms: absent, awanting, bereft, deficient, destitute, lacking, leer, deprived of, robbed of, shorn of, stripped of, wanting

Noun

IPA: /ˈlækɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-lacking.ogg [US] Forms: lackings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} lacking (plural lackings)
  1. The absence of something; a lack.
    Sense id: en-lacking-en-noun-PNX3Ru~L

Verb

IPA: /ˈlækɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-lacking.ogg [US]
Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} lacking
  1. present participle and gerund of lack Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: lack
    Sense id: en-lacking-en-verb-Qvak8n2x Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 41 3 56

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "missing or not having enough of something",
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      "sense": "missing or not having enough of something",
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "missing or not having enough of something",
      "word": "falto"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lacking"
}

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