missing
They've won a few matches this season but they lack consistency.
They lack basic foodstuffs, such as bread and milk.他们缺乏面包和牛奶这样的基本食品。
He lacks the necessary skills for the job.他不具备做这项工作所需的技能。
The town lacks leisure facilities such as a swimming pool or squash courts.这个城镇缺少游泳池、壁球场等休闲设施。
Joshua clearly has ability in this subject but he lacks application.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Lacking things
bankrupt
bankruptcy
be hard up (for something)idiom
bereft
catch
chronic disease
hole
if it wasn't/weren't forphrase
in someone's hour of needidiom
inappeasable
lack
lacking
minus
scream
shortage
shy
skimpily
starve someone/something of something
taken
unaccompanied

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Scarce, inadequate and not enough

Examples of lacked

lacked

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Eleven percent were lost to follow-up and the study lacked a control group.
All relied on whatever artists were available and these frequently lacked the vision of the composer.
Starting out with a team of only three people, the agency lacked a field organization which could have assisted states in designing their own plans.
The same was true, if to a lesser extent, of needy elderly people who had children but lacked a partner.
As suggested above for woodworking, innovations that smoothed the flow of work were valued, but highly specialized machines that lacked versatility held little appeal.
He lacked purpose, was uninterested in voluntary work, and increasingly spent his time bored at home.
First, the military lacked the coherence for a successful military coup because the navy opposed it.
Such 'trophy' directorships lacked a serious corporate base.
Nominally a city from 1540, possessing its own judicial sessions from 1618, it nevertheless lacked proper corporate government throughout this period.
Workers lacked mosquito nets and even blankets to protect themselves from nights of exposure in remote corners of the forest.
The broken edges of such cylinders were smooth and lacked prominent splinters.
The wives professed themselves disinterested in coitus twice as frequently as they reported that the husbands lacked interest.
Until the late nineteenth century no town was eligible for city status if it lacked 'architectural distinction'.
The production lacked direction in terms of pace, comic timing, and characterization.
One study indicated that although community nurses felt their initial training was satisfactory, they lacked ongoing support and training.
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