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deficient 音標拼音: [dɪf'ɪʃənt] a. 不足的,不充分的,有缺陷的 不足的,不充分的,有缺陷的 deficient adj 1: inadequate in amount or degree; " a deficient education"; " deficient in common sense"; " lacking in stamina"; " tested and found wanting" [ synonym: { deficient}, { lacking( p)}, { wanting( p)}] 2: of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement; " insufficient funds" [ synonym: { insufficient}, { deficient}] [ ant: { sufficient}] 3: falling short of some prescribed norm; " substandard housing" [ synonym: { deficient}, { inferior}, { substandard}] Deficient \ De* fi" cient\, a. [ L. deficiens, - entis, p. pr. of deficere to be wanting. See { Defect}.] 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. [ 1913 Webster] The style was indeed deficient in ease and variety. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] { Deficient number}. ( Arith.) See under { Abundant}. -- { De* fi" cient- ly}, adv. [ 1913 Webster] 104 Moby Thesaurus words for " deficient": 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
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