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What is the adjective for lacking?

What's the adjective for lacking? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb lack which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

lacking
  1. Missing or not having enough of (a good quality, etc).
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Funds were severely lacking, and we would have a tough time paying our bills.”
      “The audio quality is quite clearly lacking in these sound files.”
      “They knocked in a barrage of goals in the first two rounds, displaying a consistency sorely lacking in the past.”
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