Deficient

Word DEFICIENT
Character 9
Hyphenation de fi cient
Pronunciations /dɪˈfɪʃənt/

Definitions and meanings of "Deficient"

What do we mean by deficient?

Lacking an essential quality or element. adjective

Inadequate in amount or degree; insufficient. adjective

Lacking; wanting; incomplete.

Defective; imperfect; inadequate: as, deficient strength.

Not having a full or adequate supply: as, the country is deficient in the means of carrying on war.

Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking adjective

See under Abundant. adjective

Lacking something essential; often construed with in. adjective

Insufficient or inadequate in amount. adjective

Of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement adjective

Falling short of some prescribed norm adjective

Inadequate in amount or degree adjective

Lacking something essential; often construed with in.

Insufficient or inadequate in amount.

Of a number n, Having the sum of divisors σ(n)<2n, or, equivalently, the sum of proper divisors (or aliquot sum) s(n)

Synonyms and Antonyms for Deficient

The word "deficient" in example sentences

Finally, with only 4-11 foot through lanes the tunnel is capacity deficient from the git-go. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Exactly how much vitamin D children and adults should get, and defining when they are deficient, is under debate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unsupervised children wandering around with soulless eyes and vitamin deficient skin. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

Because the thought that smokers are somehow mentally weak and that their lives are deficient is wrong. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Produced and directed by Hank Bedford, this short followed the extremely energetic (and possibly Ritalin deficient) road warrior gearing up for another summer of peddling educational books. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Furthermore, effective demand could not remain deficient for long without the central bank's taking the falling inflation rate as a signal to cut expected short-term real interest rates and thus to move by policy means the economy back toward the natural rate of unemployment. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Another area where I think automakers are unnecessarily deficient is A/C power. ❋ Unknown (2006)

A lady at Paris, Madame Caumartin, has a copy in which there is not a word deficient; but she obstinately refused to lend it that the others may be made complete. ❋ D'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, Duchesse (2001)

Madame Caumartin, has a copy in which there is not a word deficient; but she obstinately refused to lend it that the others may be made complete. ❋ Various (N/A)

An informed person might note that as the ranking members, and later, chairmen, of their respective banking committees, both gentlemen had a significant hand in forming the regulations they said were "deficient" - after the event. ❋ By Morgan Liddick (2010)

Lawmakers Wednesday voted to find the rule "deficient" - a finding that is purely advisory

I think she’s talking about the wide range of supplements on the market for protein deficient lifestyles. ❋ Unknown (2009)

GAO watchdogs called the deficient policing of SBInet's prime contractor "a major contributor to the program's well-chronicled history of not delivering promised system capabilities on time and on budget." ❋ G.W. Schulz (2010)

Those were among dozens of areas identified as deficient by the federal monitor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I'm color deficient aka not quite full-on color blind but close enough and most 3D glasses do NOT work at all for me…so, yay? ❋ Unknown (2009)

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