| 单词 | deficient |
| 释义 | deficient (once / 472 pages) adj Deficient means not enough or not adequate. Maybe you were deficient in caffeine that day. Maybe you were lacking in study time. But no doubt about it: you came up with a deficient number of correct answers on the physics test. If your new car fund remains deficient, you don't have enough money to buy a new car. This presents a problem if your current car is deficient in some way––say, it no longer has enough engine power to drive up a hill. You may not feel you have what it takes to get a job, but the reality is you will have to chose between indulging your own deficiencies in this area or the car's. WORD FAMILYdeficient: deficiency, deficiently+/deficiency: deficiencies USAGE EXAMPLESBut in a 69-page decision issued on Friday, the Supreme Court said that Mr. Sherman’s legal work was not deficient. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) Ten percent of bridges were structurally deficient, the engineers concluded. Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016) The agency also cited a high number of runaways and a deficient fire suppression system. Washington Times(Dec 11, 2016) 1adj inadequate in amount or degree a deficient education deficient in common sense Syn lacking, wanting inadequate, unequal lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task 2adj of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement Syn|Ant insufficient meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy deficient in amount or quality or extent depleted, lowno longer sufficient inadequate, poor, shortnot sufficient to meet a need lean, skimpycontaining little excess light, scant, shortless than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so shyshort sufficient of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant amplemore than enough in size or scope or capacity adequate, decent, enoughsufficient for the purpose comfortablesufficient to provide comfort 3adj falling short of some prescribed norm Syn inferior, substandard nonstandard varying from or not adhering to a standard |
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