Another word for insufficient
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Adjective
Not enough to meet a demand or requirement
- Absent; lacking:
- Not measuring up to standards or expectations:
- Without; missing:
- In a lower position or place than:
- To or into a lower position or place than:
- Beneath the surface of:
- Easily startled; timid:
- Tending to avoid contact or familiarity with others; retiring or reserved:
- Characterized by reserve or diffidence:
- Having little length; not long.
- Having little height; not tall.
- Extending or traveling not far or not far enough:
- Insufficient to meet a demand or requirement; short in supply:
- Hard to find; absent or rare:
- Barely or hardly; scarcely.
- Not adequate to fulfill a need or meet a requirement; insufficient.
- Lacking an essential quality or element:
- Inadequate in amount or degree; insufficient:
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Another word for insufficient
Modifier
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- Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.
- Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble:
- Having little flesh; lean.
- Inadequate, as in size or fullness, especially through economizing or stinting:
- Not covering a considerable amount of the body:
- Present participle of lack.
- Lacking an essential quality or element:
- Inadequate in amount or degree; insufficient:
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