Meaning & use
Lacked
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Was without something needed or wanted; had an insufficient amount of something.
See it in a sentence
The old car lacked air conditioning, which made summer drives miserable.
The proposal lacked sufficient detail to convince the investors.
A note on using this word
Lacked is the simple past tense of 'lack,' a verb that always takes a direct object naming what is missing.
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Words with an opposite meaning
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