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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Insufficient \In'suf*fi"cient\, adjective [L. insufficiens, -entis. See {In-} not, and {Sufficient}.]
1. Not sufficient; not enough; inadequate to any need, use, or purpose; as, the provisions are insufficient in quantity, and defective in quality. ''Insufficient for His praise.'' --Cowper.
2. Wanting in strength, power, ability, capacity, or skill; incompetent; incapable; unfit; as, a person insufficient to discharge the duties of an office.
Syn: Inadequate; scanty; incommensurate; unequal; unfit; incompetent; incapable; inefficient.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
insufficient
adjective: of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement; "insufficient funds" [syn: {deficient}] [ant: {sufficient}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "insufficient": asymmetric, base, defective, deficient, disappointing, disheartening, disparate, displeasing, disproportionate, dissatisfactory, failing, found wanting, half-assed, ill-matched, ill-sorted, imperfect, inadequate, incommensurate, incompetent, incomplete, inferior, irregular, lacking, little, maladroit, mean, mediocre, minus, mismatched, not comparable, not enough, not good enough, not in it, odd, out of it, out of proportion, petty, scant, scanty, scarce, shabby, short, short of, shy, skew, skewed, small, too little, trivial, unequal, unequal to, uneven, unfulfilling, ungratifying, unqualified, unreached, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, unskillful, unsufficing, wanting
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