deficiency

crude, incomplete, short, anaphrodisiac, anaphroditious, at a low ebb, at the end of one's tether, bare, defective, deficient, denuded of, destitute of, devoid of, docked, drained, dry, empty, empty-handed, extravasated, failing, famine-stricken, famished, garbled, going on, half-and-half, half-starved, hollow, hungry, ill-furnished, ill-off, ill-provided, ill-stored, imperfect, in arrear, in debt, in default, in hand, in progress, in want, inadequate, incompetent, insufficient, jejune, lame, lopped, manqué, meager, mutilated, not enough, not to be had, not to be had at any price, not to be had for love or money, out of, perfunctory, poor, proceeding, scant, scarce, scrimp, scurvy, short of, sketchy, slack, spare, sparing, starved, starveling, stingy, stinted, thin, too little, truncated, uncompleted, unequal to, unfed, unfinished, unfulfilled, unfurnished, unprovided, unreplenished, unstored, unsupplied, untreasured, vacant, wanting, weighed in the balances and found wanting, without resources