Synonyms for lacking
lack·ing

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1. deficient, lacking(p), wanting(p)adjective

   inadequate in amount or degree

   "a deficient education"; "deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested and found wanting"

   Antonyms:
   existent, adequate, existing, equal

2. lacking, absent, missing, wantingadjective

   nonexistent

   "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking"

   Synonyms:
   abstracted, scatty, lacking(p), wanting, wanting(p), absentminded, deficient, absent, missing

   Antonyms:
   existing, adequate, existent, equal

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1. lackingadjective

   Synonyms:
   deficient, insufficient, unsupplied, shy, wanting, devoid

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1. List of paraphrases for "lacking":

   missing, lack

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1. Greg McBride:

   Pervasive price pressures across categories of spending that are necessities — shelter, food, electricity, apparel, vehicle insurance, and household furnishings and operations — show that broad-based improvement on the inflation front is still lacking.

2. Mohammad Mohaqiq:

   This government is absolutely lacking national unity.

3. Brian Katulis:

   This letter is signed by those who remain in the internationalist wing of the party – many were former advisors to candidates who lost the primary fight to Donald Trump, calling Trump unqualified to be commander in chief is tough, but also asserting that Donald Trump’s lacking in character and understanding of our basic values is really pretty amazing.

4. Katrina Spade:

   The idea is to fold the dead back into the city, the options we currently have for our bodies are lacking, both from an environmental standpoint, but also, and perhaps more importantly, from a meaning standpoint.

5. Richard Dawkins:

   Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.