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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
oroboros commented on the word deficient
deFicIenT
May 16, 2008