| Main Entry: | deficiency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imperfection, inadequacy |
Synonyms: |
absence, bug*, dearth, defalcation, default, defect, deficit, demerit, dereliction, failing, failure, fault, flaw, frailty, glitch*, inability to hack it, insufficience, insufficiency, lack, loss, need, neglect, paucity, privation, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, sin, want, weakness |
Antonyms: |
adequacy, enough, faultlessness, perfection, plenty, satisfaction, sufficiency, superfluity |
| Main Entry: | deficit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shortage of something needed, required |
Synonyms: |
arrears, dead horse, defalcation, default, deficiency, due bill, dues, in hock, in the hole, in the red, inadequacy, insufficience, insufficiency, lack, loss, paucity, red ink, scantiness, shortcoming, shortfall, underage |
Antonyms: |
enough, excess, plenty, superfluousness |
| Main Entry: | lack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficiency, need |
Synonyms: |
abridgement, absence, curtailment, dearth, decrease, default, defect, deficit, depletion, deprivation, destitution, distress, exigency, exiguity, inadequacy, inferiority, insufficience, insufficiency, loss, meagerness, miss, necessity, paucity, poverty, privation, reduction, retrenchment, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, shortness, shrinkage, shrinking, slightness, stint, want |
Antonyms: |
abundance, enough, excess, extra, lot, plenty, plethora, profusion, surplus |
| Main Entry: | paucity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack, scarcity |
Synonyms: |
absence, dearth, deficiency, famine, fewness, insufficience, insufficiency, meagerness, paltriness, poverty, rarity, scantiness, scarceness, shortage, slenderness, slightness, smallness, sparseness, sparsity |
Antonyms: |
abundance, affluence, plenty |
| Main Entry: | shortfall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficit; imperfection |
Synonyms: |
arrears, default, defectiveness, deficiency, flaw, in the hole, in the red, inadequacy, incompleteness, insufficience, insufficiency, lack, loss, red ink, shortage, shortcoming, underage |
| Main Entry: | deficiency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
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
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