lacking
adjective
- Lacking an essential element: defective, deficient, incomplete, wanting. See better/worse, excess/insufficiency/enough.
- Deficient in a usual or needed amount: absent, wanting. See excess/insufficiency/enough.
- Not having a desirable element: barren, destitute, devoid, empty, innocent, void, wanting. Idioms: in want of. See full/empty/capacity.



