Insufficiency
Nouns
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insufficiency
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inadequacy, inadequateness
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incompetence etc. (impotence) Impotence
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deficiency etc. (incompleteness) Incompleteness
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imperfection etc. Imperfection
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shortcoming etc. [motion short of] Shortcoming
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paucity
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stint
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scantiness etc. (smallness) Smallness
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none to spare, bare subsistence. scarcity, dearth
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want, need, lack, poverty, exigency
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inanition, starvation, famine, drought. dole, mite, pittance
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short allowance, short commons
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half rations
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banyan day. emptiness, poorness etc. adj.
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depletion, vacancy, flaccidity
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ebb tide
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low water
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a beggarly account of empty boxes" [Romeo and Juliet]
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indigence etc. Poverty
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insolvency etc. (nonpayment) Nonpayment.
Verbs
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be insufficient etc. adj.
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not suffice etc. Sufficiency
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come short of etc. [motion short of] Shortcoming
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run dry. want, lack, need, require
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caret
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be in want etc. (poor) Poverty, live from hand to mouth. render insufficient etc. Adj.
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drain of resources, impoverish etc. (waste) Waste
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stint etc. (begrudge) Parsimony
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put on short allowance. do insufficiently etc. adv.
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scotch the snake.
Adjectives
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insufficient, inadequate
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too little etc. Smallness
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not enough etc. Sufficiency
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unequal to
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incompetent etc. (impotent) Impotence
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weighed in the balance and found wanting
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" perfunctory etc. (neglect) Neglect
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deficient etc. (incomplete) Incompleteness
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wanting, c. v.
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imperfect etc. Imperfection
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ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill-stored, ill-off. slack, at a low ebb
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empty, vacant, bare
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short of, out of, destitute of, devoid of, bereft of etc. Taking
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denuded of
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dry, drained. unprovided, unsupplied, unfurnished
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unreplenished, unfed
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unstored, untreasured
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empty-handed. meager, poor, thin, scrimp, sparing, spare, stinted
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starved, starving
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halfstarved, famine-stricken, famished
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jejune. scant etc. (small) Smallness
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scarce
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not to be had, not to be had for love or money, not to be had at any price
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scurvy
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stingy etc. Parsimony
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at the end of one's tether
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without resources etc. Means
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in want etc. (poor) Poverty
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in debt etc. Debt.
Adverbs
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insufficiently etc. adj.
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in default of, for want of
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failing.