lacked
SayLAKT/lækt/
- 1Simple past and past participle of lack.
The proposal lacked detail and was sent back for revision.
The team had lacked clear direction until the new coach arrived.
Note
One spelling does double duty here: the past tense (the plan lacked funding) and the participle after have (it had lacked funding for years). In its everyday transitive use it takes a direct object with no preposition, so lacked detail, never lacked of detail. The intransitive use, meaning to be short of something, is the one that takes for or of: they never lacked for friends.
lacked is a form of lack
lack, verb: To be without something, or not to have enough of something that is needed or wanted (also lack for). Full entry
- Spelling
- lack → lacked: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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