Meaning of DEFICIENT
| Pronunciation: | | di'fishunt
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- [adj] inadequate in amount or degree; "a deficient education"; "deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested and found wanting"
- [adj] falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing"
- [adj] of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement; "insufficient funds"
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| | Synonyms: | | depleted, inadequate, inferior, insufficient, lacking(p), lean, light, low, nonstandard, poor, scant(p), scarce, short, shy(p), skimpy, substandard, too little, wanting(p) |
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| | Antonyms: | | sufficient | | |
| | See Also: | | meager, meagerly, meagre | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \De*fi"cient\, a. [L. deficiens, -entis, p. pr. of
deficere to be wanting. See {Defect}.]
Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a
requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective;
imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts;
deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment.
The style was indeed deficient in ease and variety.
--Macaulay.
{Deficient number}. (Arith.) See under {Abundant}. --
{De*fi"cient-ly}, adv.
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| | Definition: | | Incomplete; defective; not sufficient in quantity or force. |
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| | Related Terms: | | adulterated, amiss, arrested, bad, base, blemished, botched, bungling, callow, clumsy, damaged, defective, embryonic, erroneous, failing, fallible, faulty, flawed, found wanting, half-assed, haphazard, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, hypoplastic, immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impure, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in short supply, in want of, inaccurate, inadequate, incompetent, incomplete, inexact, infant, inferior, infrequent, injured, insufficient, lacking, little, makeshift, maladroit, marred, mean, mediocre, messy, minus, missing, mixed, needing, not comparable, not enough, not in it, not perfect, off, out of it, part, partial, patchy, petty, promiscuous, rare, scant, scanty, scarce, scrappy, scrimpy, shabby, short, short of, shy, sketchy, skimpy, slipshod, slipshoddy, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, small, too little, trivial, uncommon, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unequal to, uneven, unfinished, unperfected, unqualified, unreached, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, unskillful, unsound, unsufficing, unthorough, untidy, wanting |
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