Lacking - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 02/12/2022

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Lacking.

6 letter answer(s) to lacking

BEREFT
  1. sorrowful through loss or deprivation; "bereft of hope"
  2. unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love
VOIDOF

9 letter answer(s) to lacking

DEFICIENT
  1. falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing"
  2. inadequate in amount or degree; "a deficient education"; "deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested and found wanting"
  3. of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement; "insufficient funds"

12 letter answer(s) to lacking

INSUFFICIENT
  1. of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement; "insufficient funds"

4 letter answer(s) to lacking

LESS
  1. (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree; "of less importance"; "less time to spend with the family"; "a shower uses less water"; "less than three years old"
  2. (nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases) fewer; "less than three weeks"; "no less than 50 people attended"; "in 25 words or less"
  3. (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality; "no less than perfect"
  4. comparative of little; "she walks less than she should"; "he works less these days"
  5. used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs; "less interesting"; "less expensive"; "less quickly"
SANS
  1. Without; deprived or destitute of. Rarely used as an English word.

5 letter answer(s) to lacking

MINUS
  1. an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated; "the subtraction of three from four leaves one"; "four minus three equals one"
  2. involving disadvantage or harm; "minus (or negative) factors"
  3. on the negative side or lower end of a scale; "minus 5 degrees"; "a grade of B minus"
OUTOF
SHORT
  1. (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory"
  2. (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss"
  3. A drink of spirits.
  4. accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
  5. at a disadvantage; "I was caught short"
  6. at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell short of our expectations"
  7. cheat someone by not returning him enough money
  8. clean across; "the car's axle snapped short"
  9. create a short circuit in
  10. in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; "he told me curtly to get on with it"; "he talked short with everyone"; "he said shortly that he didn't like it"
  11. lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking"
  12. less than the correct

3 letter answer(s) to lacking

SHY
  1. a quick throw; "he gave the ball a shy to the first baseman"
  2. lacking self-confidence; "stood in the doorway diffident and abashed"; "problems that call for bold not timid responses"; "a very unsure young man"
  3. short; "eleven is one shy of a dozen"
  4. start suddenly, as from fright
  5. throw quickly
  6. wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things; "shy of strangers"

7 letter answer(s) to lacking

WITHOUT
  1. Unless; except; -- introducing a clause.

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BASHFUL
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Cut off from, with "of"
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Deprived
Deprived (of)
Deprived (of); abandoned
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Diminished by
Discounted
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Drunken type somewhat lacking
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Hardly gregarious
Hardly likely to streak
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Inadequate
Inadequate - brief
Inferior schooling excludes child
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Lacking focus regularly leads to failing grade
Lacking humour, though mostly funny
Lacking, to Louis
Lacking; below zero
Lacking; outside
Leader of Mexicans in America less
Less
Less than complete
Like a wallflower
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Lonely, abandoned
Lower
Marked down
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Minus
Missing money
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More's opposite
More, in a saying
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