Ant. Simplicity, calm, perspicacity; insight, understanding.

Lack, n. Deficiency, want, need, destitution, failure, scantiness, dearth, scarcity, fault, deficit, shortness, insufficiency.

Ant. Plenty, fulness, abundance, supply, sufficiency, competence, satisfaction.

Laconic, Laconical. Short, epigrammatic, brusk, brief, concise, pithy, sententious, terse, curt.

Ant. Wordy, tedious, prolix, diffuse, prosy, loquacious, garrulous.

Laggard, n. Loiterer, lingerer, sluggard, saunterer, dawdler, idler.

Laical. Laic, lay, unprofessional; secular, temporal; civil, non-legal.

Ant. Clerical, professional, theological, sacred, divine, ecclesiastic, ministerial, priestly, canonical, legal, sacerdotal.

Laity. Laymen, the people.

Ant. Clergy, professional people.