Locked vs Lacked - What's the difference?
locked | lacked |
(lock)
Of a door, etc, that has been locked (with a key).
(Dublin) Very drunk.A Dictionary of Hiberno-English: The Irish Use of English, Terence Patrick Dolan , p.142.
(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 verbs the difference between locked and lacked
is that locked is past tense of lock while lacked is past tense of lack.As an adjective locked
is of a door, etc, that has been locked (with a key).locked
English
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(head)Adjective
(-)lacked
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(head)Anagrams
*lack
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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.