(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lack.

absconded absent adulterated arrested away bankrupt in bare of bereaved bereaved of bereft bereft of blemished callow cut off damaged defective deficient deleted denuded denuded of departed deprived of destitute of devoid devoid of disappeared divested embryonic empty of erroneous existless failing fallible faulty for want of forlorn of found wanting gone half-assed hypoplastic immature impaired imperfect imprecise impure in arrear in arrears in default in default of in short supply in want of inaccurate inadequate incompetent incomplete inexact infant inferior insufficient makeshift mediocre minus missing mixed needing negative no longer present nonattendant nonexistent not enough not found not perfect not present null off omitted out of out of pocket out of sight part parted from partial patchy robbed of sans scant scant of scanty scrappy shorn of short short of shy shy of sketchy stripped of subtracted taken away too little unblessed with underdeveloped undeveloped unequal to uneven unexisting unfinished unperfected unpossessed of unqualified unreached unsatisfactory unsatisfying unsound unsufficing unthorough vacuous vanished void void of wanting without being