deficientadjective
uk/dɪˈfɪʃ.ənt/us/dɪˈfɪʃ.ənt/not having enough of:
A diet deficient in vitamin D may cause the disease rickets.
not good enough:
His theory is deficient in several respects.
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Scarce, inadequate and not enough
- be at a premium idiom
- be thin on the ground idiom
- dearth
- deficiency
- devoid
- gold dust
- late
- long on sth and short on sth idiom
- lousy
- meagre
- measly
- mingy
- nearly
- rare
- scarcity
- shortage
- shortfall
- sparse
- supply
- thin
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deficiently
adverb uk/dɪˈfɪʃ.ənt.li/us/dɪˈfɪʃ.ənt.li/