Thesaurus: deficient

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1. a. 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.
2. adj. inadequate in amount or degree
3. adj. of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement
4. adj. falling short of some prescribed norm
5. 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.
6. Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards arequirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect;incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficientstrength; deficient in judgment.The style was indeed deficient in ease and variety. Macaulay.Deficient number. (Arith.) See under Abundant.-- De*fi"cient-ly, adv.
7. j:100 s. inadequate in amount or degree s. falling short of some prescribed norm