Deficiency

Noun

 * 1)  Inadequacy or incompleteness.
 * 2)  An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.

Antonyms

 * excess

Adjectives for Deficiency
unavoidable; fatal; evident; mental; technical; previous; glaring; psychological; marked; organic; suprarenal; noticeable.

Verbs for Deficiency
accentuate—; allow—; balance—; sate for—; condone—; correct—;act—; detect—; manifest—; mend—; ob¬serve—; presage—; reveal—; supply—; weep for—; —glares; —occurs.

Thesaurus
absence, adulteration, arrearage, arrestment, baseness, beggary, blemish, break, bug, callowness, catch, crack, dearth, defalcation, default, defect, defectibility, defection, defectiveness, deficit, demerit, deprivation, dereliction, destitution, discontinuity, drawback, drought, erroneousness, failing, failure, fallibility, famine, fault, faultiness, faute, fewness, flaw, foible, frailty, gap, hiatus, hole, immaturity, impairment, imperfection, impoverishment, impurity, inaccuracy, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompetence, incompleteness, incompletion, inexactitude, inexactness, infirmity, insufficiency, interval, kink, lack, lacuna, little problem, littleness, maladroitness, meanness, mediocrity, miscarriage, missing link, need, neglect, omission, outage, patchiness, pettiness, privation, problem, rift, scantiness, scrappiness, shabbiness, short measure, short weight, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, sin, sketchiness, smallness, snag, something missing, starvation, subnormality, taint, triviality, ullage, underage, underdevelopment, undevelopment, unevenness, unperfectedness, unskillfulness, unsoundness, vulgarity, vulnerable place, want, wantage, weak link, weak point, weakness

Translations

 * Bulgarian: недостатък
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: puute, puuttellisuus, vajaus


 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Romanian: deficiență
 * Russian:, , неполноценность,


 * Bulgarian: недостиг,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * French: ,
 * Italian:
 * Romanian: lipsă (de)
 * Russian: нехватка,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish: brist


 * : deficiencia, insuficiencia