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lacks

UK/læks/

lacks is the plural of lack.

lacks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lack.

Meaning of lack

Noun

lack (countable and uncountable, plural lacks)

  1. A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want, dearth.
    • It is a question of money, or lack of same.
    Synonyms:
    paucity
    Antonyms:
    glut, surplus, plethora
  2. (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
    • In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

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Proper noun capitalized: Lacks

Lacks (plural Lackses)

  1. A surname

Forms of lacks

pluralLackses

Words formed from lacks

Questions about lacks

What does lacks mean?
Lacks means a surname.
What is lacks the plural of?
Lacks is the plural of lack.
What part of speech is lacks?
Lacks is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce lacks?
Lacks is pronounced /læks/ (UK).

Words near lacks in the dictionary

  1. Lackner
  2. Lackners
  3. Lacko
  4. Lackos
  5. Lackrana
  6. lacks
  7. lackstock
  8. lackstocks
  9. lackt
  10. lackwit
  11. lackwits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lacks (page history and authors); Lacks (page history and authors); lack (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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