Feature
Feature verb - Have as a feature.
Usage example: This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France
Lack
Lack verb - Be without.
Usage example: This soup lacks salt
How words are described
| physical | physical feature | physical lack |
| notable | notable feature | notable lack |
| similar | similar feature | similar lack |
| typical | typical feature | typical lack |
| Other adjectives: natural, short, obvious, actual, distinct, real, constant, large, great, noticeable, remarkable, inherent, new, frequent, significant, unusual. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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When Dwayne buys everyone pupils (another feature some of them lack) for an April Fools strip, Nick points out that he has them underneath his glasses, and requests a mouth instead.
Source: No Mouth - But then there is that one shop, whose proprietor takes lack of advertising Up to Eleven: this shop's defining feature is how hard it is to just to get in.
Source: Secret Shop - Moogles are particularly notable, as due to lack of releases of 3 or 5 at the time, the first game released in America to feature them was part of a spinoff series: Secret of Mana.
Source: Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros."
Cite this Source
Lack and Feature. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/feature/lack
Feature & Lack. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/feature/lack>.
Lack or Feature. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/feature/lack.
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