lacuna | Definition of lacuna

Synonyms and Antonyms of lacuna

1 a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number

attributes many of the nation's problems to a lacuna of leadership at the top

Synonyms of lacuna

crunch, dearth, deficiency, deficit, drought (also drouth), failure, famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, lack, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want

Words Related to lacuna

absence, omission

meagerness, poorness, skimpiness

necessity, need, privation

Near Antonyms of lacuna

bountifulness, copiousness

excess, overabundance, oversupply, surfeit, surplus

Antonyms of lacuna

abundance, adequacy, amplitude, opulence, plenitude, plenty, sufficiency, wealth

2 an incomplete or deficient area

a lacuna in its collection of Impressionists that the museum is trying to fill

Synonyms of lacuna

gap, hiatus, hole, space, void

Words Related to lacuna

defectiveness, detriment, disability, failing, fault, impairment, weakness

deficiency, deficit, imperfection, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompleteness, insufficience, insufficiency, lack, need, shortcoming, shortfall, want

Near Antonyms of lacuna

completeness, fullness