Word Meanings - INSUFFICIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Not sufficient; not enough; inadequate to any need, use, or purpose; as, the provisions are insufficient in quantity, and defective in quality. "Insufficient for His praise." Cowper. 2. Wanting in strength, power, ability, capacity, or skill;

Additional info about word: INSUFFICIENT

1. Not sufficient; not enough; inadequate to any need, use, or purpose; as, the provisions are insufficient in quantity, and defective in quality. "Insufficient for His praise." Cowper. 2. Wanting in strength, power, ability, capacity, or skill; incompetent; incapable; unfit; as, a person insufficient to discharge the duties of an office. Syn. -- Inadequate; scanty; incommensurate; unequal; unfit; incompetent; incapable; inefficient.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INSUFFICIENT)

• Defective
• Faulty
• imperfect
• insufficient
• deficient
• wanting
• short
• Incapable
• Unqualified
• unable
• incapable
• unfitted
• weak
• incompetent
• feeble
• disqualified
• Poor
• Indigent
• moneyless
• impecunious
• penniless
• meagre
• faulty
• unsatisfactory
• inconsiderable
• thin
• scanty
• bald
• Scant
• Short
• mean
• niggardly
• stingy
• narrow
• limited
• chary
• sparing

Related words: (words related to INSUFFICIENT)

• SPAR-HUNG
  Hung with spar, as a cave.
• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• INCAPABLE
  Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
• SPARPOIL
  To scatter; to spread; to disperse.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• IMPECUNIOUS
  Not having money; habitually without money; poor. An impecunious creature. B. Jonson.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• CHARYBDIS
  A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.
• SPARSELY
  In a scattered or sparse manner.
• SCANTLING
  Not plentiful; small; scanty. Jer. Taylor.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• WANTWIT
  One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
• SPARKER
  A spark arrester.
• DEFICIENT
  Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment. The style was
• SPARROWWORT
  An evergreen shrub of the genus Erica .
• DESPARPLE
  To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville.
• FLUOR SPAR
  See FLUORITE
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• OUTSPARKLE
  To exceed in sparkling.
• DISPARK
  1. To throw ; to treat as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor. 2. To set at large; to release from inclosure. Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark
• CORUSCANT
  Glittering in flashes; flashing. Howell.
• SHIVER-SPAR
  A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
• ANGWANTIBO
  A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.