Word Meanings - DEFICIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: DEFICIENT

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. See under Abundant. -- De*fi"cient-ly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEFICIENT)

• Defective
• Faulty
• imperfect
• insufficient
• deficient
• wanting
• short
• Empty
• Vacant
• void
• clear
• unencumbered
• unobstructed
• unoccupied
• waste
• uninhabited
• unfrequented
• devoid
• vacuous
• destitute
• unulled
• unfurnished
• untenanted
• evacuated
• weak
• Billy
• idle
• senseless
• Poor
• Indigent
• moneyless
• impecunious
• penniless
• meagre
• faulty
• unsatisfactory
• inconsiderable
• thin
• scanty
• bald

Related words: (words related to DEFICIENT)

• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• BILLY GOAT
  A male goat.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• IMPECUNIOUS
  Not having money; habitually without money; poor. An impecunious creature. B. Jonson.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• VACANTLY
  In a vacant manner; inanely.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• WANTWIT
  One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
• DEFICIENT
  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
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• CLEAR-HEADED
  Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.
• SHORTHEAD
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• DEFECTIVE
  Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb. -- De*fect"ive*ly, adv. -- De*fect"ive*ness, n. (more info) 1. Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied
• WANTONNESS
  The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• ANGWANTIBO
  A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
• POLYNUCLEAR
  Containing many nuclei.
• MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS
  The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
• FOREWASTE
  See GASCOIGNE