Lacking vs Deficient - What's the difference?
lacking | deficient |
The absence of something; a lack.
* Sax Rohmer, The Romance of Sorcery
Lacking something essential; often construed with'' in .
Insufficient or inadequate in amount.
As a verb lacking
is .As a noun lacking
is the absence of something; a lack.As an adjective deficient is
deficient.lacking
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Cagliostro, however, whatever his moral lackings , did not lack spirit; he was not the man to succumb to this kind of coercion.