| Main Entry: | deficient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imperfect, inadequate |
Synonyms: |
amiss, bad, damaged, defective, exiguous, faulty, flawed, found wanting, impaired, incomplete, inferior, infrequent, injured, insufficient, lacking, marred, meager, not cut out for, not enough, not make it, not up to scratch, outta gas, rare, scant, scanty*, scarce, second fiddle, second string, short, shy, sketchy, skimpy, third string, unassembled, unequal, unfinished, unsatisfactory, wanting, weak |
| Notes: | defective means having a defect or fault, while deficient means inadequate or lacking in amount or degree |
Antonyms: |
adequate, ample, enough, excessive, faultless, flawless, perfect, satisfactory, sufficient, superfluous |
| Main Entry: | unfinished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not completed |
Synonyms: |
amateurish, bare, crude, cut short, dabbling, defective, deficient, dilettante, faulty, formless, found wanting, fragmentary, half-baked, half-done, immature, imperfect, in the making, in the rough, incomplete, lacking, natural, not done, plain, raw, rough, roughhewn, shapeless, sketchy, tentative, unaccomplished, unadorned, unassembled, uncompleted, unconcluded, under construction, undeveloped, undone, unexecuted, unfashioned, unfulfilled, unperfected, unpolished, unrefined, wanting |
Antonyms: |
completed, finished, polished, refined, whole |