Lankest vs Lackest - What's the difference?
lankest | lackest |
(lank)
Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
* Meager and lank with fasting grown. - .
* Who would not choose ... to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain? - .
* Blacks in the fields, lank'' and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bolls of cotton. - 1985 , chapter 1.
(of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (often associated with being greasy)
* Lank hair, long, thin hair. -
(obsolete) languid; drooping.
* Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head. -
(archaic) (lack)
(obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
*
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A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
* Shakespeare
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To be short (of'' or ''for something).
* Shakespeare
To be in want.
* Bible, Psalms xxxiv. 10
As an adjective lankest
is (lank).As a verb lackest is
(archaic) (lack).lankest
English
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
*lank
English
Adjective
(er)- (Macaulay)
Anagrams
* ----lackest
English
Verb
(head)lack
English
Noun
(en noun)- Let his lack of years be no impediment.
- I went to a shrink, to analyze my dreams. He said it's lack of sex that's bringing me down.''
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Antonyms
* glut * surplusVerb
(en verb)- My life lacks excitement.
- He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.
- What hour now? I think it lacks of twelve.
- The young lions do lack , and suffer hunger.