Deficient
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Deficient \De*fi"cient\, a. [L. deficiens, -entis, p. pr. of
deficere to be wanting. See {Defect}.]
Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a
requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective;
imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts;
deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment.
[1913 Webster]
The style was indeed deficient in ease and variety.
--Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]
{Deficient number}. (Arith.) See under {Abundant}. --
{De*fi"cient-ly}, adv.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
104 Moby Thesaurus words for "deficient":
adulterated, amiss, arrested, bad, base, blemished, botched,
bungling, callow, clumsy, damaged, defective, embryonic, erroneous,
failing, fallible, faulty, flawed, found wanting, half-assed,
haphazard, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, hypoplastic, immature,
impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impure, in arrear, in arrears,
in default, in short supply, in want of, inaccurate, inadequate,
incompetent, incomplete, inexact, infant, inferior, infrequent,
injured, insufficient, lacking, little, makeshift, maladroit,
marred, mean, mediocre, messy, minus, missing, mixed, needing,
not comparable, not enough, not in it, not perfect, off, out of it,
part, partial, patchy, petty, promiscuous, rare, scant, scanty,
scarce, scrappy, scrimpy, shabby, short, short of, shy, sketchy,
skimpy, slipshod, slipshoddy, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, small,
too little, trivial, uncommon, underdeveloped, undeveloped,
unequal to, uneven, unfinished, unperfected, unqualified,
unreached, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, unskillful, unsound,
unsufficing, unthorough, untidy, wanting
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