The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word NEED , but the solution may also be WANT which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Lack crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| NEED | 48 % | 4 |
| DEARTH | 16 % | 6 |
| ABSENCE | 13 % | 7 |
| WANT | 13 % | 4 |
| HAVENT | 2 % | 6 |
| BEINNEEDOF | 1 % | 10 |
| REQUIRE | 1 % | 7 |
| MEAGERNESS | 1 % | 10 |
| SCARCENESS | 1 % | 10 |
| HAVENOT | 1 % | 7 |
| SHORTAGE | 1 % | 8 |
Why may WANT be the right solution?
The word "want" can be used as a synonym for "lack", as in lacking something that is needed or desired.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Lack
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- deficiency
- miss
- want
- insufficient
- insufficiency
- deficient
- deficit
- inadequacy
- inadequate
- shortcoming
- failure
- unsatisfactory
Crossword Answer definitions
NEED noun- A requirement for something; something needed.
- Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
- To have an absolute requirement for.
- To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
- (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).
- To be required; to be necessary.
- To be necessary (to someone).
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result NEED
- Burden
- Poverty-stricken state
- Call for
- Can't live without
- Exigency
- Require
- Requirement
- Requisite
- Scholarship factor
- Shortfall
More clues leading to the result DEARTH
More clues leading to the result ABSENCE
- Issue for Marco Rubio, vis-a-vis his Senate voting
- Attendance-book notation
- "___ sharpens love, presence strengthens it" (Ben Franklin)
- Nonappearance
- Truant's offense
- Failure to show up
- Lack
- Truancy
- Fondness intensifier?
- It makes the heart grow fonder, they say
More clues leading to the result WANT
- Fancy
- Thirst for
- Word on an Uncle Sam poster
- Entry on a wish list
- Have a hankering
- Have one's heart set on
- Hanker for
- Verb in a letter to Santa
- Needy condition
- Be deficient in
More clues leading to the result HAVENT
- Ain't got
- Answer, part 2
- "I __ a clue!"
- "__ the foggiest!"
- Lack, briefly
- "__ we met?"
- "You ___ changed a bit."
- Negative verb form.
- Verbal contraction.
- Common verbal contraction.
More clues leading to the result BEINNEEDOF
More clues leading to the result REQUIRE
More clues leading to the result MEAGERNESS
More clues leading to the result SCARCENESS
More clues leading to the result HAVENOT
- One on skid row
- One of the indigent
- Poor person
- One without wealth
- Underprivileged one
- Materially deprived type
- Oppressed one
- One living in poverty
- One in need
- Penniless one