Deficient

Adjective

 * 1) Lacking something essential; often construed with in''.
 * 2) Insufficient or inadequate in amount.

Adverbs for Deficient
fatally; evidently; mentally; technically; markedly; glaringly; noticeably; crudely; lamentably; unfortunately; sadly; miserably ; pitifully; woefully.

Synonyms for Deficient
inadequate, incomplete, wanting, scarce, lacking, short, defective, imperfect.

Antonyms for Deficient
adequate, sufficient, enough, ample, perfect, satisfactory.

Related terms

 * defect
 * defection
 * defective
 * defector
 * deficiency
 * deficit

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
< deficiens:, present participle of deficere:; see defect.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: несъвършен, с недостатъци
 * Finnish: puutteellinen


 * German:
 * Romanian: deficient


 * Bulgarian: недостатъчен, недостигащ
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish: