About The Word Deficiency
Learn about the word Deficiency to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Deficiency definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Deficiency
| Deficiency Definition And Meaning |
|---|
What's The Definition Of Deficiency?
[n] lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"
[n] the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" Synonyms | Synonyms for Deficiency: inadequacy | insufficiency | lack | want Related Terms | Find terms related to Deficiency: absence | adulteration | arrearage | arrestment | baseness | beggary | blemish | break | bug | callowness | catch | crack | dearth | defalcation | default | defect | defectibility | defection | defectiveness | deficit | demerit | deprivation | dereliction | destitution | discontinuity | drawback | drought | erroneousness | failing | failure | fallibility | famine | fault | faultiness | faute | fewness | flaw | foible | frailty | gap | hiatus | hole | immaturity | impairment | imperfection | impoverishment | impurity | inaccuracy | inadequacy | inadequateness | incompetence | incompleteness | incompletion | inexactitude | inexactness | infirmity | insufficiency | interval | kink | lack | lacuna | little problem | littleness | maladroitness | meanness | mediocrity | miscarriage | missing link | need | neglect | omission | outage | patchiness | pettiness | privation | problem | rift | scantiness | scrappiness | shabbiness | short measure | short weight | shortage | shortcoming | shortfall | sin | sketchiness | smallness | snag | something missing | starvation | subnormality | taint | triviality | ullage | underage | underdevelopment | undevelopment | unevenness | unperfectedness | unskillfulness | unsoundness | vulgarity | vulnerable place | want | wantage | weak link | weak point | weakness See Also | absence | amount | dearth | deficit | demand | exiguity | famine | meagerness | meagreness | mineral deficiency | need | poorness | scantiness | scantness | scarceness | scarcity | shortage | shortage | shortfall | stringency | tightness Deficiency In Webster's Dictionary \De*fi"cien*cy\, n.; pl. {Deficiencies}. [See
{Deficient}.]
The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure;
imperfection; shortcoming; defect. ``A deficiency of blood.''
--Arbuthnot.
[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his
deficiencies made him the ridicule of his
contemporaries. --Buckle.
{Deficiency of a curve} (Geom.), the amount by which the
number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum
for curves of the same degree.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Punitive damages ‐ (law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment…
- Subclavian artery ‐ either of two arteries that supply blood to the…
- Redwood ‐ either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height…
- Transpirate ‐ pass through the tissue or substance or its pores or interstices,…
- Malaria mosquito ‐ transmits the…
- Mutual opposition ‐ a relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies; "he…
- Double standard ‐ an ethical or moral code that applies more strictly to one group…
- Keyhole saw ‐ a handsaw for cutting short radius curves; similar to a compass…
- Euglenophyceae ‐ coextensive with the division…
- Subset ‐ a set whose members are members of another set; a set contained…