Synonym: incomplete, lacking, missing, wanting. Antonym: ample, enough, plenty, sufficient. Similar words: deficiency, efficient, sufficient, proficient, coefficient, efficiently, inefficient, sufficiently. Meaning: [-nt] 
adj. 1. inadequate in amount or degree 2. of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement 3. falling short of some prescribed norm.
adj. 1. inadequate in amount or degree 2. of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement 3. falling short of some prescribed norm. 
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(31) It will shock her, this assumed equivalence with a man so strikingly deficient.
(32) There is, even yet, a hangover of fear and superstition where the disables or mentally deficient are concerned.
(33) But if a man could not accept this differentiation, we should regard him as totally deficient in taste.
(34) Vitamin E is available from so many food sources that no normal diet could possibly be deficient in it.
(35) Many other countries of the world that are deficient in oil reserves have coal and natural gas.
(36) Deficient in numbers, they soon returned to the Valley; but their act astonished the North.
(37) The failure to recognise the difference between public concern about standards and public concern about price is what makes the Bill deficient.
(38) It thus tackles head on the problem of excess or deficient aggregate demand.
(39) As well as being deficient in mass support, the Republican politicians who numerically dominated the Provisional Government lacked unity amongst themselves. Sentencedict.com
(40) A mentally deficient or unstable individual was not wanted on the line, even if there was a shortage of men.
(41) It was a delightful, careless room, untidy and rather deficient in comfortable chairs.
(42) Untaught people whose verbal skills are grossly deficient.
(43) Wendy: Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient!
(44) He is deficient in energy.
(45) A mentally deficient person; an idiot.
(46) The crops are suffering from deficient rain.
(47) I always have been deficient in selfconfidence and decision.
(48) a diet that is deficient in vitamin A.
(49) Cottonseed meal is deficient in lysine, methionine and leucine.
(50) The content of insulin in diabetes sufferers is deficient. Insulin plays a vital role in saccharometabolism and affects protein synthesis.
(51) For this, it is quite deficient, even a mistake to attribute the characteristics of digital cognition processing task to those of digital representation.
(52) Is suitable in the lung hot Yin deficient result cough expectorate, the mouth swallows dry does, pulmonary tuberculosis cough and so on.
(53) Creates the result is: The information public capriciousness is quite strong, deficient continuity.
(54) The recurrent aphtha caused by flaring-up of deficient fire due to deficient cold of spleen and stomach is very common.
(55) At the caudal end of the sacrum the roof of the vertebral canal is commonly deficient.
(56) METHODS: The blood deficient mice model was induced by injection of phenylhydrazine and cyclophosphamide.
(57) We don't want the brain to be deficient in its critical nutrients during development.
(58) Most inhabitants of industrialized countries tend to be deficient in Omega-3s.
(59) Objective: The erythrocyte membrane contents of sialic acid was estimated in order to study the Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficient erythrocyte hemolysis.
(60) Most deficient acetabula can be restored to a hemispherical shape, and a standard, albeit large, acetabular component can be inserted.
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