What is another word for deficiency?
359 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ d_ɪ_f_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə_n_s_ɪ], [ dɪfˈɪʃənsɪ], [ dɪfˈɪʃənsɪ]Table of Contents
Similar words for deficiency:- abandonment (noun)
- debt (noun)
- deficiency (noun)
- failing (noun)
- failure (noun)
- imperfection (noun)
- imperfection, inadequacy (noun)
- incompleteness (noun)
- insufficiency (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
Definition for Deficiency:
- Being deficient; want, lack; thing wanting; amount by which thing, esp. revenue, falls short. [ Late Latin]
Synonyms for Deficiency:
n.
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- scarcity.
Other synonyms:
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- bankruptcy,
- Without,
- Achilles' Heel,
- nonattendance,
- scantness,
- Noncompletion,
- damage,
- abnormality.
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- demerit,
- absence,
- underage,
- disadvantage.
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- limitation.
- paltriness,
- imperfectness,
- foible,
- fortunately,
- happily,
- powerlessness,
- indecisiveness,
- vacuum,
- inexactness,
- blessedly,
- breach,
- elegantly,
- unskillfulness,
- fortunate,
- uselessness,
- erroneousness,
- exiguity,
- stringency,
- outage,
- inadequate,
- handily,
- with success,
- impoverishment,
- delicately,
- weak point,
- Peccancy,
- callowness,
- warmly,
- engulf,
- disappear,
- shabbiness,
- debility,
- favorably,
- incomplete,
- void,
- ensnare,
- Neediness,
- deficient,
- not worth,
- beguile,
- dexterously,
- snag,
- disgrace,
- death,
- out of practice,
- finely,
- barrenness,
- uncultivated,
- anaemia,
- confidently,
- smallness,
- impoverished,
- minority,
- mediocrity,
- indigence,
- prosperously,
- miscarriage,
- impairment,
- half measures,
- besetting sin,
- destitute,
- laughable,
- spot,
- crack,
- vacancy,
- auspiciously,
- go,
- abort,
- fallibility,
- wane,
- spinelessness,
- problem,
- courteously,
- incompetence,
- by chance,
- funny,
- faulty,
- absolutely,
- promptly,
- inability,
- subnormality,
- absurd,
- readily,
- certainly,
- entrap,
- be short of,
- wish,
- haply,
- undersupply,
- joyfully,
- critically,
- desire,
- encouragingly,
- hotly,
- adulteration,
- minimum,
- contentedly,
- inaccuracy,
- rift,
- unevenness,
- depart,
- deprivation,
- lucky,
- amiss,
- ullage,
- positively,
- scant,
- cease,
- beggary,
- luckily,
- vulnerable place,
- satisfactorily,
- hole,
- miserable,
- Impecuniosity,
- stingy,
- poor,
- die,
- short measure,
- fail,
- fall,
- starvation,
- Plumply,
- penitent,
- short,
- blissfully,
- emptiness,
- peccadillo,
- peradventure,
- apologetic,
- break,
- error,
- Non-fulfilment,
- ineptitude,
- advantageously,
- enmesh,
- providentially,
- Incompletion,
- scrappiness,
- surely,
- vulgarity,
- shortness,
- by luck,
- desideratum,
- opening,
- catch,
- destitution,
- gracefully,
- decease,
- badness,
- interval,
- meanness,
- felicitously,
- deftly,
- bald,
- timely,
- kink,
- blot,
- ludicrous,
- irregularity,
- indiscretion,
- missing link,
- attract,
- bloodlessness,
- low,
- apologize,
- rarity,
- politely,
- perish,
- sketchiness,
- drop,
- bad,
- thankfully,
- needy,
- disappoint,
- ridiculous,
- welly,
- unsubstantiality,
- overwhelm,
- aptly,
- genuine,
- insufficient,
- underdevelopment,
- inexactitude,
- littleness,
- triumphantly,
- remissness,
- maladroitness,
- Arrearage,
- compassionately,
- poorness,
- bare subsistence,
- taint,
- hopefully,
- impotence,
- Non-existence,
- blank,
- insignificance,
- worthlessness,
- cloven foot,
- conveniently,
- pathetic,
- regret,
- liability,
- scarce,
- baseness,
- incidentally,
- unsatisfactoriness,
- joyously,
- patchiness,
- beneficially,
- well,
- triviality,
- naked,
- Arrestment,
- immaturity,
- stint,
- promisingly,
- insubstantial,
- weak side,
- weak link,
- be lacking,
- fade,
- inefficiency,
- indigent,
- vice,
- inferiority,
- drown,
- submerge,
- successfully,
- fortuitously,
- faute,
- defective,
- foolish,
- not enough,
- optimistically,
- incapacity,
- sorry,
- mercifully,
- impurity,
- expire,
- inundate,
- Nonpreparation,
- Wantage,
- quality,
- Defectibility,
- lose,
- goodly,
- benignly,
- opportunely,
- graciously,
- Subordinacy,
- preposterous,
- non-completion,
- pettiness,
- adroitly,
- unimportance,
- lacuna.
Paraphrases for Deficiency:
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Equivalence
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Proper noun, singular
shortcomings, weaknesses, insufficiency, inadequacy.
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Noun, singular or mass
shortcoming, defect, weakness, insufficiency, inadequacy.
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Proper noun, singular
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Reverse Entailment
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
disadvantage, discrepancy, abnormality, inconsistency, inefficiency, malfunction, unavailability, void, incompetence, mistake, difference, limitation, Non-performance.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Other Related
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Proper noun, singular
impairment, impairments.
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Noun, singular or mass
irregularity, deficient, deprivation, drawback, omission, lacuna, Lacunae, loophole, failing, handicap, deficit, impairment, infirmity, anomaly, impropriety, shortfall, error, incompleteness, problem.
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Proper noun, singular
Antonyms for Deficiency:
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n.
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imperfection, inadequacy
adequacy, plenty, abundance, strength, strong point, superfluity, achievement, excess, sufficiency, success, surplus, perfection, enough, accomplishment, faultlessness, advantage, satisfaction.
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Other antonyms:
bountifulness, opulence, copiousness, amplitude, wealth.
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imperfection, inadequacy
Homophones for Deficiency:
- deviousness, dubiousness, defusing, diffusing, diffuseness, dovishness, devising, dipsomaniac, debasing, Davy Jones, dapsang.
Hypernym for Deficiency:
n.
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state
famine, tightness, shortness, dearth, absence, mineral deficiency, shortage, stringency, deficit.
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state
