for lack of

idiom

: not having (the thing specified)

They called it a comet, for lack of a better term/word.

For lack of anything better to do, we went to the park.

Examples of for lack of in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And that’s why the show, for lack of a better term, gets away with this stuff as it’s done, in such a careful, tasteful manner. —Alex Ritman, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026

Even the bottom feeders on the roster, for lack of a better way to put it, are all high-level athletes, and that wasn’t always necessarily the case. —Mark Puleo, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2026

Despite advances in launch vehicles and spacecraft design, humans have not traveled beyond LEO in more than fifty years—not for lack of ambition, but because operating there means doing without the systems that make human spaceflight viable today. —Charlotte Kiang, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026

The charge related to meth was later reduced and then dismissed in March 1992 for lack of evidence, shortly after a trial commenced. —Graham Womack updated January 15, Sacbee.com, 16 Jan. 2026

Rhymes for for lack of

• above
• foxglove
• hereof
• thereof
• whereof
• dove
• glove
• love
• shove
• hereinabove