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skimpy
Inadequate, as in size or fullness, especially through economizing or stinting:
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  1. Inadequate, as in size or fullness, especially through economizing or stinting:
  2. Small or inadequate; not generous, or of a garment, very small, light, or revealing.
  3. Barely or not quite enough; somewhat less in size, fullness, etc. than is needed; scanty
deficient
Inadequate in amount or degree; insufficient:
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  1. Inadequate in amount or degree; insufficient:
  2. Lacking in some essential; incomplete; defective
  3. Lacking an essential quality or element:
meager
Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.
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  1. Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.
  2. Having little flesh; lean.
  3. Of poor quality or small amount; not full or rich; inadequate
deficient
Lacking an essential quality or element:
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  1. Lacking an essential quality or element:
  2. Inadequate in amount or degree; insufficient:
  3. Inadequate in amount, quality, or degree; not sufficient
inadequate
Not adequate to fulfill a need or meet a requirement; insufficient.
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  1. Not adequate to fulfill a need or meet a requirement; insufficient.
  2. Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions, representations, etc.
  3. Not adequate; not sufficient; not equal to what is required
scarce
Not common; rarely seen
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  1. Not common; rarely seen
  2. Not plentiful; not sufficient to meet the demand; hard to get
  3. Insufficient to meet a demand or requirement; short in supply:
short
Containing a large amount of shortening; flaky:
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  1. Containing a large amount of shortening; flaky:
  2. Extending or traveling not far or not far enough:
  3. (--- popularly) Not diphthongized [the short a in “pan”]
shy
Not having a sufficient or specified amount, as of money:
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  1. Not having a sufficient or specified amount, as of money:
  2. Tending to avoid contact or familiarity with others; retiring or reserved:
  3. Lacking; short (on or of)
under
Located or situated on a lower level or beneath something else:
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  1. Located or situated on a lower level or beneath something else:
  2. Less than is required or customary:
  3. Lower in position, authority, rank, amount, degree, etc.
wanting
Absent; lacking; missing
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  1. Absent; lacking; missing
  2. Absent; lacking:
  3. Not measuring up to standards or expectations:
Find another word for insufficient. In this page you can discover 17 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for insufficient, like: skimpy, deficient, lacking, meager, faulty, inadequate, unfinished, wanting, deficient, inadequate and scarce.

Sentence Examples

  • It may also dismiss a case on grounds of insufficient evidence.

  • Though these reasons were very insufficient and obscure, no one made any rejoinder.

  • 17 and a thickness of insulating material which formerly would have been considered quite insufficient is now very generally adopted with complete success.

  • The British School, founded in 1886, has been unable, owing to insufficient endowment, to work on similar lines with the French and German institutions; it has, however, carried out extensive excavations at Megalopolis and in Melos, as well as researches at Abae, in Athens (presumed site of the Cynosarges), in Cyprus, at Naucratis and at Sparta.

  • Many theories of the relation of human to animal sacrifice have been put forward, most of them on an insufficient basis of facts.

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