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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;

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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.

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  • 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.
  • CORUSCANT
    Glittering in flashes; flashing. Howell.
  • 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
  • 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.

 

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