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Lack vs Bountiful - What's the difference?

lack | bountiful |

As a verb lack

is .

As an adjective bountiful is

having a quantity or amount that is generous or plentiful; ample.

lack

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}
  • A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let his lack of years be no impediment.
  • * 1994 , (Green Day),
    • I went to a shrink, to analyze my dreams. He said it's lack of sex that's bringing me down.''
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Moldova 0-5 England , passage=If Moldova harboured even the slightest hopes of pulling off a comeback that would have bordered on miraculous given their lack of quality, they were snuffed out 13 minutes before the break when Oxlade-Chamberlain picked his way through midfield before releasing Defoe for a finish that should have been dealt with more convincingly by Namasco at his near post.}}

    Antonyms

    * glut * surplus

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be without, to need, to require.
    • My life lacks excitement.
  • To be short (of'' or ''for something).
    • He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.
  • * Shakespeare
    • What hour now? I think it lacks of twelve.
  • To be in want.
  • * Bible, Psalms xxxiv. 10
    • The young lions do lack , and suffer hunger.

    Related terms

    * lackluster

    Anagrams

    * ----

    bountiful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * bountifull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a quantity or amount that is generous or plentiful; ample.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.}}