 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
deficient
adjective
1: inadequate in amount or degree; "a deficient education";
"deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina";
"tested and found wanting" [syn: {lacking(p)}, {wanting(p)}]
2: of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement;
"insufficient funds" [syn: {insufficient}] [ant: {sufficient}]
3: falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing"
[syn: {inferior}, {substandard}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Deficient \De*fi"cient\, adjective [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.
The style was indeed deficient in ease and variety.
--Macaulay.
{Deficient number}. (Arith.) See under {Abundant}. --
{De*fi"cient-ly}, adverb
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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