Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking an essential quality or element.
- adjective Inadequate in amount or degree; insufficient.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lacking; wanting; incomplete.
- Defective; imperfect; inadequate: as, deficient strength.
- Not having a full or adequate supply: as, the country is deficient in the means of carrying on war.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking
- adjective (Arith.) See under
Abundant .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Lacking somethingessential ; often construed within . - adjective
Insufficient orinadequate inamount .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement
- adjective falling short of some prescribed norm
- adjective inadequate in amount or degree
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Finally, with only 4-11 foot through lanes the tunnel is capacity deficient from the git-go.
“Anyone Who Says There Aren’t Going to Be Cost Overruns Is Fooling Themselves.” « PubliCola 2010
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Because the thought that smokers are somehow mentally weak and that their lives are deficient is wrong.
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Unsupervised children wandering around with soulless eyes and vitamin deficient skin.
Christmas Shopping In Ruraltown « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Exactly how much vitamin D children and adults should get, and defining when they are deficient, is under debate.
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Produced and directed by Hank Bedford, this short followed the extremely energetic (and possibly Ritalin deficient) road warrior gearing up for another summer of peddling educational books.
Competitive Shorts Showcased at the Backlot Film Festival 2007
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Furthermore, effective demand could not remain deficient for long without the central bank's taking the falling inflation rate as a signal to cut expected short-term real interest rates and thus to move by policy means the economy back toward the natural rate of unemployment.
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Another area where I think automakers are unnecessarily deficient is A/C power.
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A lady at Paris, Madame Caumartin, has a copy in which there is not a word deficient; but she obstinately refused to lend it that the others may be made complete.
The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001
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Madame Caumartin, has a copy in which there is not a word deficient; but she obstinately refused to lend it that the others may be made complete.
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Madame Caumartin, has a copy in which there is not a word deficient; but she obstinately refused to lend it that the others may be made complete.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 04 Charlotte-Elisabeth Orleans 1687
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May 16, 2008