Insufficiency

Synonyms for insufficiency
noun lack

paucity
deficiency

inadequacy
inability

incompetency
dearth

Antonyms for insufficiency

plenty
adequacy

enough
sufficiency

Concept Thesaurus for word insufficiency
2. Subservience to ends; actual subservience
Synonyms – noun

insufficiency
deficiency (incompleteness)
stint
scarcity
lack
starvation
mite
half rations
depletion
low water
insolvency (nonpayment)

inadequacy
imperfection
scantiness (smallness)
dearth
poverty
famine
pittance
banyan day.
vacancy
“a beggarly account of empty boxes”

inadequateness
shortcoming
none to spare
want
exigency
drought.
short allowance
emptiness
flaccidity
[Romeo and Juliet]

incompetence (impotence)
paucity
bare subsistence.
need
inanition
dole
short commons
poorness
ebb tide
indigence

Synonyms – verbs

be insufficient
want
caret
drain of resources
do insufficiently

not suffice
lack
be in want (poor)
impoverish (waste)[more]
scotch the snake.

come short of
need
live from hand to mouth.
stint (begrudge)

run dry.
require
render insufficient
put on short allowance.

Synonyms – adjectives

insufficient
unequal to
deficient (incomplete)
ill-provided
at a low ebb
short of
bereft of [more]
unprovided
unfed
meager
sparing
starving
jejune.
not to be had for love or money
at the end of one’s tether

inadequate
incompetent (impotent)
wanting
ill-stored
empty
out of
denuded of
unsupplied
unstored
poor
spare
half-starved
scant (small)
not to be had at any price
without resources

too little
“weighed in the balance and found wanting”
imperfect
ill-off.
vacant
destitute of
dry
unfurnished
untreasured
thin
stinted
famine-stricken
scarce
scurvy
in want (poor)

not enough
pertunctory (neglect)
ill-furnished
slack
bare
devoid of
drained.
unreplenished
empty-handed.
scrimp
starved
famished
not to be had
stingy
in debt

Synonyms – phrases
semper avarus eget [Horace].
Antonyms

sufficiency

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