lacking

The word “lacking” has 2 syllables: lack-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈlækɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for lacking?

In the thesaurus, “lacking” has 82 synonyms and 61 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for lacking along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for lacking

Antonyms for lacking

Meanings of lacking

  • verb
    1. To be without, to need, to require.
    2. To be short (of or for something).
    3. To be in want.
    4. To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.
  • noun
    1. The absence of something; a lack.
  • adjective
    1. Missing or not having enough of (a good quality, etc).
    2. Not carrying a firearm.

Example Sentences

  • The report was thorough, but the conclusion seemed lacking in supporting evidence.
  • His performance was decent, yet it was not extraordinary, lacking the passion we expected.
  • The novel's plot was intriguing, but the character development felt lacking.
  • The team's strategy was well-planned, but their execution was lacking in coordination.
  • Despite her extensive experience, her resume was lacking the key achievements employers look for.

On this page you'll find 143 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to lacking, such as: abounding, absent, abundant, active, adequate, alive, ample.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

abolishing

  • abandoning
  • abandonment
  • abating
  • abolition
  • aborting
  • abrogating
  • abrogation
  • annihilating
  • annihilation
  • annulling
  • annulment
  • assassinating
  • atomizing
  • avoiding
  • bane
  • banning
  • blacking out
  • blasting
  • blotting out
  • blowing up
  • breaking down
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • carnage
  • consuming
  • countermanding
  • crashing
  • crushing
  • cutting
  • dashing
  • decimating
  • deletion
  • demolishing
  • destroying
  • devastating
  • devastation
  • devouring
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discarding
  • disintegrating
  • dismantling
  • dismissing
  • disrupting
  • dissolution
  • dissolving
  • ditching
  • doing away with
  • dooming
  • downfall
  • dropping
  • dynamiting
  • effacing
  • ejecting
  • eliminating
  • elimination
  • end
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • eradication
  • erasing
  • excising
  • expelling
  • expunging
  • exterminating
  • extermination
  • extinction
  • extinguishing
  • extinguishment
  • extirpating
  • extirpation
  • finishing
  • flattening
  • forbidding
  • fragmenting
  • havoc
  • invalidating
  • invalidation
  • jettisoning
  • killing
  • killing off
  • liquidating
  • liquidation
  • loss
  • massacre
  • murder
  • negating
  • nullification
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • obliterating
  • obliteration
  • ousting
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overthrow
  • overturning
  • powdering
  • prohibiting
  • pulverizing
  • quashing
  • ravaging
  • razing
  • recall
  • recalling
  • rejecting
  • removing
  • repeal
  • repealing
  • repudiation
  • rescinding
  • retirement
  • retracting
  • retraction
  • reversal
  • reversing
  • revocation
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • rubbing out
  • ruin
  • ruination
  • ruining
  • sacking
  • setting aside
  • shattering
  • slaughter
  • slaying
  • smashing
  • splintering
  • striking down
  • subjugation
  • subversion
  • subverting
  • suspending
  • tearing down
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • undoing
  • vacating
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • wasting
  • wiping out
  • withdrawing
  • wrack
  • wreck
  • wreckage
  • wrecking
  • writing off
  • zapping

abortive

abridged

  • abated
  • abbreviated
  • abrupt
  • abstracted
  • boiled down
  • breviloquent
  • brief
  • broken
  • canned
  • capsule
  • clear
  • compact
  • compendiary
  • compendious
  • compressed
  • concentrated
  • concise
  • condensed
  • constricted
  • contracted
  • crisp
  • crude
  • curt
  • curtailed
  • cut
  • cut back
  • cut down
  • cut-back
  • de-escalated
  • decreased
  • defective
  • deficient
  • deflated
  • digested
  • diminished
  • diminutive
  • docked
  • downsized
  • dwindled
  • economized
  • elided
  • encapsulated
  • ephemeral
  • epigrammatic
  • epitomized
  • expurgated
  • fast
  • fleeting
  • fractional
  • fragmentary
  • garbled
  • half-done
  • immature
  • imperfect
  • impermanent
  • in a nutshell
  • inadequate
  • incoherent
  • insufficient
  • interpreted
  • itsy-bitsy
  • lacking
  • laconic
  • lean
  • lessened
  • little
  • lowered
  • made plain
  • marrowy
  • meager
  • meaty
  • miniature
  • miniaturized
  • minute
  • moderated
  • modified
  • momentary
  • pared
  • part
  • partial
  • peewee
  • pint-sized
  • pithy
  • pocket
  • pocket-size
  • pocket-sized
  • portable
  • pruned
  • recapitulated
  • reduced
  • retrenched
  • rough
  • rude
  • rudimentary
  • scaled-down
  • short
  • short and sweet
  • short-lived
  • short-range
  • short-term
  • shortened
  • shortish
  • shrank
  • shrunk
  • sketchy
  • slashed
  • small
  • subtracted
  • succinct
  • sudden
  • summarized
  • summary
  • summed up
  • syncopated
  • synoptic
  • tabloid
  • tapered
  • terse
  • tiny
  • to the point
  • transient
  • transitory
  • trimmed
  • truncated
  • unaccomplished
  • uncomplicated
  • unconsummated
  • under construction
  • undeveloped
  • undone
  • unexecuted
  • unpolished
  • wee

absent

bad

  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • abominably
  • abomination
  • abysmal
  • abysmally
  • achy
  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • acute
  • addled
  • admirable
  • adverse
  • afflicted
  • aggravating
  • aggrieved
  • agonized
  • ailing
  • airsick
  • amiss
  • anathema
  • anguished
  • annoying
  • appalling
  • arch
  • atrocious
  • atrociously
  • atrociousness
  • atrocity
  • awe-inspiring
  • awful
  • awfully
  • babyish
  • badass
  • badly
  • badness
  • baleful
  • balefulness
  • balky
  • baneful
  • banned
  • bargain-basement
  • barred
  • base
  • bastard
  • beastly
  • below par
  • bilious
  • bitchy
  • bitter
  • black
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • bleak
  • blemished
  • blue
  • broken
  • brokenhearted
  • brummagem
  • brutal
  • bum
  • bush
  • bush-league
  • cancer
  • canker
  • careless
  • carsick
  • cast down
  • catty
  • caustic
  • censurable
  • challenged
  • cheap
  • cheapjack
  • cheeky
  • cheerless
  • cheesy
  • childish
  • coarse
  • comfortless
  • common
  • condemned
  • conscience-stricken
  • contagious
  • contaminated
  • contemptible
  • contemptuous
  • contrary
  • contrite
  • cool
  • corroded
  • corrupt
  • corrupted
  • corruption
  • counterfeit
  • crappy
  • crestfallen
  • criminal
  • crippled
  • critical
  • cruddy
  • cruel
  • crumbled
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • curdled
  • cursed
  • curst
  • cussed
  • cut-rate
  • damaged
  • damaging
  • damnable
  • damnably
  • dangerous
  • dark
  • darkening
  • darkness
  • deadly
  • debased
  • debauched
  • debauchery
  • debilitated
  • decay
  • decayed
  • decaying
  • decomposed
  • decomposing
  • decrepit
  • defaced
  • defective
  • defiant
  • deficient
  • deficiently
  • defiled
  • defiling
  • degeneracy
  • degenerate
  • degenerated
  • dejected
  • deleterious
  • delinquent
  • deplorable
  • deplorably
  • depraved
  • depravedness
  • depravity
  • deprecating
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • derogatory
  • desolate
  • despairing
  • despicable
  • despiteful
  • despondent
  • destructive
  • deteriorated
  • detestable
  • detestably
  • detrimental
  • devastating
  • devilishness
  • devilry
  • deviltry
  • devious
  • diabolism
  • difficult
  • dirty
  • disabled
  • disadvantageous
  • disagreeable
  • disallowed
  • disappointed
  • disastrous
  • disastrously
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • discouraging
  • disdainful
  • diseased
  • disfigured
  • disgraceful
  • disgusting
  • disheartened
  • dishonest
  • dishonorable
  • disintegrated
  • disintegrating
  • dismal
  • disobedient
  • disobliging
  • disordered
  • disorderly
  • disparaging
  • dispirited
  • displeasing
  • disreputable
  • disrespectful
  • dissatisfactory
  • dissolute
  • distasteful
  • distressed
  • distressing
  • dizzy
  • doleful
  • dolorous
  • down
  • down in the mouth
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • dreadful
  • dreadfully
  • drear
  • dreary
  • droopy
  • egregious
  • egregiously
  • el cheapo
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • elfish
  • enormity
  • envious
  • errant
  • erring
  • erroneous
  • evil
  • evil-minded
  • evildoing
  • evilness
  • execrable
  • execrably
  • extreme
  • fake
  • fallen
  • fallible
  • fatal
  • faulty
  • feeble
  • fermented
  • feverish
  • fiendishness
  • fierce
  • flagrant
  • flagrantly
  • flashy
  • flawed
  • forbidden
  • forlorn
  • foul
  • fouled
  • fragile
  • frail
  • from hunger
  • froward
  • funereal
  • galling
  • gangrenous
  • garish
  • gaudy
  • ghastly
  • gimcrack
  • glitzy
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • gnarly
  • god-awful
  • godawful
  • grand
  • grave
  • gray
  • grey
  • grieving
  • grim
  • gross
  • grossly
  • guilty
  • half-assed
  • halt
  • hangdog
  • harmed
  • harmful
  • harsh
  • hateful
  • hazardous
  • headstrong
  • heartbroken
  • heartsick
  • heartsore
  • heavyhearted
  • heinousness
  • hellish
  • hideous
  • hopeless
  • horrendous
  • horrendously
  • horrible
  • horribly
  • horrid
  • horrifically
  • hostile
  • hurt
  • hurtful
  • hypochondriac
  • hypochondriacal
  • icky
  • ignoble
  • ill
  • ill-behaved
  • ill-mannered
  • ill-natured
  • illegal
  • immature
  • immoral
  • immorality
  • impaired
  • imperfect
  • imperiling
  • imperilling
  • impish
  • impolite
  • imposing
  • impressive
  • improper
  • impudent
  • impure
  • in pain
  • inadequate
  • inadequately
  • inappropriately
  • incapacitated
  • incomplete
  • inconsiderate
  • inconsolable
  • incorrect
  • incorrectly
  • indecency
  • indecent
  • indecently
  • indecorous
  • indifferent
  • indisposed
  • ineffective
  • ineffectual
  • infamous
  • infantile
  • infectious
  • infective
  • inferior
  • inferiorly
  • infernal
  • infirm
  • inimical
  • iniquitous
  • iniquitousness
  • iniquity
  • injured
  • injurious
  • inoperative
  • insidious
  • insolent
  • insufficient
  • insufficiently
  • insurgent
  • intense
  • interdicted
  • intimidating
  • intolerably
  • intractable
  • invalid
  • invidious
  • irreverent
  • irritating
  • jaundiced
  • jealous
  • jejune
  • jeopardizing
  • joyless
  • junky
  • juvenile
  • kiddish
  • killer
  • kitsch
  • kitschy
  • knavish
  • lachrymose
  • lacking
  • lackluster
  • lame
  • lesser
  • lethal
  • libertine
  • light-headed
  • loathsome
  • loose
  • lousily
  • lousy
  • low
  • low-grade
  • low-minded
  • low-rent
  • low-spirited
  • lugubrious
  • malefaction
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • malign
  • malignant
  • marred
  • meager
  • meagerly
  • meagre
  • mean
  • mean-spirited
  • meanly
  • mediocre
  • melancholic
  • melancholy
  • menacing
  • meretricious
  • mighty
  • mildewy
  • misbehaving
  • mischievous
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • miserably
  • miserly
  • moldering
  • moldy
  • monkeying
  • monkeyish
  • morbid
  • morose
  • mournful
  • murky
  • mutinous
  • nasty
  • naughtily
  • naughty
  • nauseated
  • nauseating
  • nauseous
  • nefarious
  • negative
  • niggardly
  • nocuous
  • noisome
  • nonbinding
  • nonvalid
  • noxious
  • nugatory
  • null
  • null and void
  • objectionable
  • obnoxious
  • obscene
  • obstreperous
  • odious
  • odiously
  • off
  • offensive
  • ominous
  • on the blink
  • opprobrious
  • ornery
  • ostentatious
  • out of sorts
  • outlawed
  • painful
  • paltry
  • parlous
  • pathetic
  • peaked
  • peaky
  • perilous
  • pernicious
  • perverse
  • perversion
  • perverted
  • pervertedness
  • pestiferous
  • pestilent
  • pestilential
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pixieish
  • plaintive
  • poisonous
  • polluted
  • poor
  • poorly
  • poxy
  • prankish
  • prejudicial
  • prohibited
  • proscribed
  • puerile
  • punk
  • putrefied
  • putrefying
  • putrescent
  • putrid
  • qualmish
  • queasy
  • queazy
  • rancid
  • rancorous
  • rank
  • rascally
  • rebellious
  • recalcitrant
  • refractory
  • regretful
  • remorseful
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • reprehensible
  • reprehensibly
  • reprobate
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • resentful
  • restive
  • revolting
  • revulsive
  • risky
  • roguish
  • rot
  • rotten
  • rottenly
  • rotting
  • rowdy
  • rubbishy
  • rude
  • rueful
  • ruffianly
  • ruinous
  • run-down
  • sad
  • saddened
  • sassy
  • satanism
  • saturnine
  • scandalous
  • scantily
  • scantly
  • scanty
  • scathing
  • schlock
  • schlocky
  • scornful
  • scoundrelly
  • scrofulous
  • scurrility
  • scurrilous
  • scurrilousness
  • scurvy
  • seamy
  • seasick
  • second-class
  • second-rate
  • seedy
  • selfish
  • serious
  • severe
  • shabbily
  • shabby
  • shaky
  • sham
  • shameful
  • shlock
  • shlocky
  • shocking
  • shoddily
  • shoddy
  • short
  • showy
  • sick
  • sickened
  • sickening
  • sickish
  • sickly
  • sin
  • sinful
  • sinfulness
  • sinister
  • skimp
  • skimpily
  • skimpy
  • sleazily
  • sleazy
  • slipshod
  • sly
  • snakelike
  • snide
  • snotty
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sordid
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • sour
  • soured
  • sourish
  • spare
  • sparely
  • spiteful
  • splashy
  • spoiled
  • squalor
  • squeamish
  • stingily
  • stingy
  • stinky
  • suboptimal
  • subpar
  • substandard
  • sucky
  • suicidal
  • sullen
  • sunk
  • supercheap
  • swank
  • swanky
  • symptomatic
  • taboo
  • tabu
  • tacky
  • tainted
  • tawdry
  • tearful
  • terrible
  • terribly
  • thoughtless
  • threatening
  • tough
  • toxic
  • transgressing
  • trashily
  • trashy
  • troubled
  • troublesome
  • troubling
  • trumpery
  • turned
  • ugly
  • ultracheap
  • unacceptable
  • unacceptably
  • unauthorized
  • unbearably
  • unbecoming
  • unclean
  • uncongenial
  • uncontrollable
  • uncouth
  • under par
  • under the weather
  • uneasy
  • unethical
  • unfavorable
  • unfortunate
  • unfriendly
  • ungodly
  • ungovernable
  • unhappy
  • unhealthful
  • unhealthy
  • unholy
  • unkind
  • unkindly
  • unlawful
  • unlovely
  • unloving
  • unmannerly
  • unpalatable
  • unpleasant
  • unpleasing
  • unprincipled
  • unquiet
  • unrighteous
  • unruly
  • unsafe
  • unsatisfactorily
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsavory
  • unscrupulous
  • unseemly
  • unsound
  • unspeakable
  • unspeakably
  • unsuitably
  • untoward
  • unwelcome
  • unwell
  • unwholesome
  • upset
  • upsetting
  • useless
  • valueless
  • venomous
  • vexatious
  • vexing
  • vicious
  • vile
  • vilely
  • vileness
  • villainous
  • villainy
  • vindictive
  • virulent
  • vitiated
  • vitriolic
  • void
  • vulgar
  • vulgarly
  • wack
  • waggish
  • wailing
  • wanting
  • wayward
  • weak
  • weakly
  • weeping
  • wicked
  • wickedness
  • wild
  • wilful
  • willful
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • woozy
  • worried
  • worthless
  • wretched
  • wretchedly
  • wrong
  • wrongheaded
  • yucky
  • yukky

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