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| Main Entry: | shortcoming |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weak point |
| Synonyms: | bug*, catch*, defect, deficiency, demerit, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, frailty, imperfection, infirmity, lack, lapse, sin, weakness |
| Antonyms: | advantage, success, strong point |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
-verbs
come short of, fall short of, stop short of, come short , fall short, stop short; not reach; want; keep within bounds, keep within the mark, keep withim the compass., break down, stick in the mud, collapse, flat out [U.S.], come to nothing; fall through, fall to the ground; cave in, end in smoke, miss the mark, fail; lose ground; miss stays.
-adjectives
unreached; deficient; short, short of; minus; out of depth; perfunctory (neglect) [more].
-adverbs
within the mark, within the compass, within the bounds; behindhand; re infecta; to no purpose; far from it.
-phrases
the bubble burst.
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| 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, oversight, privation, shortcoming, slight, transgression, vice, weakness, wrongdoing, overlooking |
| Antonyms: | advantage, payment, perfection, satisfaction, success |
| Main Entry: | defect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blemish, imperfection |
| Synonyms: | birthmark, blot, blotch, break, bug, catch, check, crack, deficiency, deformity, discoloration, drawback, error, failing, fault, flaw, foible, frailty, gap, glitch, gremlin, hole, infirmity, injury, irregularity, kink, knot, lack, mark, mistake, patch, rift, scar, scarcity, scratch, seam, second, shortage, shortcoming, sin, speck, spot, stain, taint, vice, want, weakness, marring, rough spot, unsoundness, weak point |
| Antonyms: | advantage, improvement, perfection, strength |
| Main Entry: | deficiency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imperfection, inadequacy |
| Synonyms: | absence, bug*, dearth, default, defect, deficit, demerit, dereliction, failing, failure, fault, flaw, frailty, glitch*, insufficiency, lack, loss, need, neglect, paucity, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, sin, want, weakness, defalcation, inability to hack it, insufficience, scantiness |
| Antonyms: | adequacy, enough, perfection, plenty, satisfaction, sufficiency, superfluity, faultlessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deficit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shortage of something needed, required |
| Synonyms: | arrears, default, deficiency, dues, in the red, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, loss, paucity, shortcoming, shortfall, dead horse, defalcation, due bill, in hock, in the hole, insufficience, red ink, scantiness, underage |
| Antonyms: | enough, excess, plenty, superfluousness |
| Main Entry: | drawback |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disadvantage |
| Synonyms: | check, defect, deficiency, detriment, difficulty, disability, evil, failing, fault, flaw, handicap, hindrance, hitch, ill, impediment, imperfection, inconvenience, lack, nuisance, obstacle, shortcoming, snag, stumbling block*, trouble, weakness, fly in the ointment |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, boon, extra, perfection |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | foible |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal imperfection |
| Synonyms: | characteristic, defect, eccentricity, failing, fault, frailty, idiosyncrasy, infirmity, kink, mannerism, oddity, peculiarity, quirk, shortcoming, vice, weakness, singularity, weak point |
| Notes: | a failing is a flaw or weak point or a failure to reach a minimum required performance; a foible a minor weakness or failing of character |
| Antonyms: | strength |
| Main Entry: | frailty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weakness, flaw |
| Synonyms: | Achilles heel*, blemish, debility, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, delicacy, error, failing, fallibility, fault, feebleness, foible, foil, imperfection, infirmity, peccadillo, shortcoming, solecism, daintiness, flimsiness, peccability, suscept, weak point |
| Antonyms: | firmness, strength |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imperfection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flaw |
| Synonyms: | blemish, bug*, catch, defect, deficiency, deformity, demerit, failing, fallibility, fault, foible, frailty, glitch*, gremlin*, inadequacy, infirmity, insufficiency, peccadillo, problem, shortcoming, sin, stain, taint, weakness, disfigurement, incompleteness, weak point |
| Antonyms: | excellence, perfection, purity, flawlessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disabling lack of talent, skill |
| Synonyms: | disqualification, failure, frailty, impotence, inadequacy, incapacity, incompetence, inefficiency, ineptitude, insufficiency, lack, necessity, shortcoming, weakness, inaptitude, incapability, incapacitation, ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, inefficacy, ineptness, inutility, powerlessness, unfitness |
| Antonyms: | ability, capacity, competence, skill, talent |
| Main Entry: | inadequacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shortage, defect, inability |
| Synonyms: | blemish, dearth, deficiency, deficit, drawback, failing, flaw, imperfection, incapacity, incompetence, inefficiency, ineptitude, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, paucity, poverty, shortcoming, weakness, defalcation, defectiveness, faultiness, inadequateness, inaptness, incompetency, incompleteness, ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, inefficacy, scantiness, skimpiness, underage, unfitness, unsuitableness |
| Antonyms: | ability, adequacy, enough, plenty, sufficiency |
| Main Entry: | infirmity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weakness, sickness |
| Synonyms: | affliction, ailing, ailment, confinement, debility, decay, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, disease, disorder, failing, fault, feebleness, frailty, imperfection, indisposition, malady, malaise, shortcoming, debilitation, diseasedness, flu, ill health, sickliness, unhealth, unhealthiness, unwellness, vulnerability |
| Antonyms: | soundness, strength, good health, healthiness, robustness |
| Main Entry: | lack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficiency, need |
| Synonyms: | abridgement, absence, curtailment, dearth, decrease, default, defect, deficit, depletion, deprivation, destitution, distress, exigency, inadequacy, inferiority, insufficiency, loss, meagerness, miss, necessity, paucity, poverty, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, shrinkage, shrinking, stint, want, exiguity, insufficience, retrenchment, scantiness, shortness, slightness |
| Antonyms: | abundance, enough, excess, extra, lot, plenty, plethora, profusion, surplus |
| Main Entry: | shortfall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficit; imperfection |
| Synonyms: | arrears, default, deficiency, flaw, in the red, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, loss, shortage, shortcoming, defectiveness, in the hole, incompleteness, insufficience, red ink, underage |
| Main Entry: | sin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illegal or immoral action |
| Synonyms: | anger, covetousness, crime, damnation, debt, deficiency, demerit, disobedience, envy, error, evil, fault, guilt, imperfection, iniquity, lust, misdeed, offense, peccadillo, pride, shortcoming, sloth, transgression, trespass, vice, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, evil-doing, gluttony, immorality, peccability, peccancy, sinfulness, tort, ungodliness, unrighteousness, veniality, wrongness |
| Antonyms: | behavior, goodness, morality |
| Main Entry: | weakness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defect, proneness |
| Synonyms: | Achilles heel*, appetite*, blemish, debility, decrepitude, deficiency, delicacy, failing, fault, feebleness, flaw, fondness, fragility, frailty, gap, imperfection, impotence, inclination, indecision, infirmity, instability, lack, languor, lapse, liking, passion, penchant, predilection, proclivity, prostration, senility, shortcoming, soft spot*, taste*, vice, chink in armor, enervation, faintness, impairment, inconstancy, invalidity, irresolution, powerlessness, sore point, vitiation, vulnerability |
| Antonyms: | strength, strong point |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imbalance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of balance |
| Synonyms: | disproportion, inequality, shortcoming, asymmetry, lopsidedness, unevenness |
| Main Entry: | chink in one's armor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weak point |
| Synonyms: | Achilles' heel, failing, foible, frailty, shortcoming, soft spot, underbelly, vulnerable place, weak link, weak side, weakness |
| Main Entry: | handicap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disadvantage |
| Synonyms: | affliction, baggage*, barrier, block, burden, detriment, disability, drawback, encumbrance, hindrance, impediment, injury, limitation, load, millstone, obstacle, restriction, shortcoming, stumbling block*, hangup, impairment, psychological baggage |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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