| Main Entry: | insufficiency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack |
Synonyms: |
dearth, deficiency, inability, inadequacy, incompetency, paucity |
Antonyms: |
sufficiency |
| Concept: | Insufficiency. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; actual subservience |
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-nouns
insufficiency; inadequacy, inadequateness; incompetence (impotence); deficiency (incompleteness); imperfection; shortcoming; paucity; stint; scantiness (smallness); none to spare, bare subsistence., scarcity, dearth; want, need, lack, poverty, exigency; inanition, starvation, famine, drought., dole, mite, pittance; short allowance, short commons; half rations; banyan day., emptiness, poorness; depletion, vacancy, flaccidity; ebb tide; low water; "a beggarly account of empty boxes" [Romeo and Juliet]; indigence; insolvency (nonpayment).
-verbs
be insufficient; not suffice; come short of, run dry., want, lack, need, require; caret; be in want (poor), live from hand to mouth., render insufficient; drain of resources, impoverish (waste) [more]; stint (begrudge); put on short allowance., do insufficiently; scotch the snake.
-adjectives
insufficient, inadequate; too little; not enough; unequal to; incompetent (impotent); "weighed in the balance and found wanting"; pertunctory (neglect); deficient (incomplete); wanting; imperfect; ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill-stored, ill-off., slack, at a low ebb; empty, vacant, bare; short of, out of, destitute of, devoid of , bereft of [more]; denuded of; dry, drained., unprovided, unsupplied, unfurnished; unreplenished, unfed; unstored, untreasured; empty-handed., meager, poor, thin, scrimp, sparing, spare, stinted; starved, starving; half-starved, famine-stricken, famished; jejune., scant (small); scarce; not to be had, not to be had for love or money, not to be had at any price; scurvy; stingy; at the end of one's tether; without resources; in want (poor); in debt.
-adverbs
insufficiently; in default of, for want of; failing.
-phrases
semper avarus eget [Horace].
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Antonyms: |
sufficiency |
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| Main Entry: | absence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of lacking something needed or usual |
Synonyms: |
dearth, deficiency, drought, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, need, omission, privation, unavailability, void, want |
Antonyms: |
abundance, enough, plenty |
| Main Entry: | default |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | failure; want |
Synonyms: |
absence, blemish, blunder, dearth, defect, deficiency, delinquency, dereliction, disregard, error, fault, imperfection, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, lapse, miss, neglect, nonpayment, offense, omission, overlooking, oversight, privation, shortcoming, slight, transgression, vice, weakness, wrongdoing |
Antonyms: |
advantage, payment, perfection, satisfaction, success |
| 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: | disproportion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imbalance |
Synonyms: |
asymmetry, difference, discrepancy, disparity, imparity, inadequacy, inequality, insufficiency, irregularity, lopsidedness, unevenness, unsuitableness |
Antonyms: |
balance, equality, evenness, parity, proportion |
| Main Entry: | drought |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dryness; shortage of supply |
Synonyms: |
aridity, dearth, deficiency, dehydration, desiccation, dry spell, insufficiency, lack, need, parchedness, rainlessness, scarcity, want |
Antonyms: |
monsoon, wetness |
| Main Entry: | feebleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of strength; ineffectiveness |
Synonyms: |
debility, decrepitude, delicacy, disease, effeteness, enervation, etiolation, exhaustion, flimsiness, frailness, frailty, inability, inadequacy, incapacity, incompetence, ineffectualness, infirmity, infirmness, insignificance, insufficiency, lameness, languor, lassitude, malaise, senility, sickliness, unhealthiness, weakness |
Antonyms: |
ability, effectiveness, health, heartiness, power, soundness, strength |
| Main Entry: | imperfection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flaw |
Synonyms: |
blemish, bug*, catch, defect, deficiency, deformity, demerit, disfigurement, failing, fallibility, fault, foible, frailty, glitch*, gremlin, inadequacy, incompleteness, infirmity, insufficiency, peccadillo, problem, shortcoming, sin, stain, taint, weak point, weakness |
Antonyms: |
excellence, flawlessness, perfection, purity |