Synonyms for Deficient:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • wanting,
  • deficient,
  • lacking.
  •bad (adjective)
  • poorer,
  • not good,
  • godawful,
  • sad,
  • most inferior,
  • the pits,
  • cruddy,
  • junky,
  • bottom out,
  • grody.
  •defective (adjective)
  • most seconds,
  • out order,
  • on bum,
  • sickest,
  • subnormal,
  • most blemished,
  • more subnormal,
  • sub normal,
  • more flawed,
  • un-sounder,
  • un healthier,
  • most subnormal,
  • un healthy,
  • un-healthy,
  • un sounder,
  • un-soundest,
  • un-healthiest,
  • un soundest,
  • most flawed,
  • un-sound,
  • un sound,
  • un-healthier,
  • on the bum,
  • more blemished,
  • un healthiest,
  • more seconds,
  • sub-normal.
  •destitute (adjective)
  • be-reft,
  • more moneyless,
  • most without,
  • most totaled,
  • more beggared,
  • totaled,
  • most divested,
  • in-solvent,
  • most pinched,
  • more busted,
  • more without,
  • more divested,
  • more pinched,
  • in solvent,
  • on breadline,
  • on rocks,
  • most beggared,
  • penurious,
  • povertystricken,
  • poverty stricken,
  • most moneyless,
  • most busted,
  • more totaled,
  • stripped,
  • be reft.
  •devoid (adjective)
  • in-nocent,
  • de void,
  • more denuded,
  • in nocent,
  • sansest,
  • de-void,
  • sanser,
  • most denuded.
  •diminished (adjective)
  • minus.
  •dissatisfactory (adjective)
  • lame,
  • unsatisfying,
  • no good,
  • not up to par,
  • unsuitable,
  • not satisfying.
  •failing (adjective)
  • fainter,
  • Unsufficient,
  • Unthriving,
  • unprosperous.
  •faulty (adjective)
  • de based,
  • more botched,
  • inexact,
  • in exact,
  • more marred,
  • more malfunctioning,
  • in accurate,
  • in-exact,
  • malformed,
  • in valid,
  • more warped,
  • un reliable,
  • most imprecise,
  • un-retentive,
  • un-fit,
  • most marred,
  • un-reliable,
  • most malfunctioning,
  • lemon,
  • most unretentive,
  • in-valid,
  • more imprecise,
  • more lemon,
  • most botched,
  • un fit,
  • most lemon,
  • warped,
  • in-accurate,
  • de-based,
  • un retentive,
  • most warped,
  • more unretentive.
  •imperfect (adjective)
  • junker,
  • few bugs,
  • bottom-of-barrel,
  • bottom of barrel,
  • spoiled,
  • blemished,
  • two bit,
  • tainted,
  • blotched,
  • second-rate,
  • incomplete.
  •imperfect, inadequate (adjective)
  • infrequent,
  • impaired,
  • meager,
  • second fiddle,
  • marred,
  • amiss,
  • weak,
  • third string,
  • sketchy,
  • injured,
  • damaged,
  • not up to scratch,
  • not make it,
  • unequal,
  • second string,
  • not cut out for,
  • exiguous,
  • outta gas.
  •inadequate (adjective)
  • in aptest,
  • in-apter,
  • more niggardly,
  • in appreciable,
  • in competent,
  • in adequate,
  • un qualified,
  • impotent,
  • in-commensurate,
  • glitcher,
  • un equal,
  • more stinted,
  • un-qualified,
  • in considerable,
  • in-adequate,
  • most niggardly,
  • in-aptest,
  • incapable,
  • inconsiderable,
  • un productive,
  • un-productive,
  • un-equal,
  • in-considerable,
  • bushleague,
  • most stinted,
  • in apter,
  • in substantial,
  • in-appreciable,
  • in commensurate,
  • in capable,
  • in-capable,
  • glitchest,
  • in-competent,
  • in-substantial.
  •incomplete (adjective)
  • missing,
  • patchy,
  • unconsummated,
  • discontinuous,
  • immature,
  • fractional,
  • partial,
  • segmental,
  • unattained,
  • fragmentary,
  • half-done,
  • half done,
  • unachieved,
  • undone,
  • Parter,
  • Unaccomplished,
  • Unexecuted,
  • sectional,
  • embryonic,
  • unfulfilled,
  • Curtailed,
  • under construction.
  •inconclusive (adjective)
  • in-decisive,
  • in-conclusive,
  • un convincing,
  • un decided,
  • most unfateful,
  • in conclusive,
  • un settled,
  • unfateful,
  • un eventful,
  • more unfateful,
  • in decisive,
  • un-eventful,
  • un-decided,
  • un fateful,
  • un-settled,
  • un-convincing,
  • in determinate,
  • un-fateful.
  •insufficient (adjective)
  • too little too late,
  • sparse,
  • unfitted,
  • unample,
  • short of,
  • Flyspeck,
  • out of,
  • miserly,
  • stingy.
  •less (adjective)
  • not as great.
  •low (adjective)
  • uncostly,
  • marked down,
  • cut-rate,
  • lower,
  • cut rate.
  •meager (adjective)
  • scrimpier,
  • in fertile,
  • scrimpiest,
  • scrimpest,
  • un-fruitful,
  • in-fertile,
  • un fruitful,
  • skimpest.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • recherche,
  • unfinished,
  • imprecise,
  • scarce,
  • seldom met with,
  • shy,
  • pre-eminent,
  • semioccasional,
  • uncompleted,
  • dissatisfactory,
  • niggardly,
  • flat broke,
  • rinkydink,
  • scrimpy,
  • in need of,
  • scant,
  • mentally deficient,
  • unassembled,
  • unheard of,
  • second class,
  • devoid,
  • halfwitted,
  • found wanting,
  • skimpy,
  • rare,
  • failing,
  • destitute,
  • second-best,
  • inadequate,
  • unretentive,
  • low,
  • at a premium,
  • imperfect,
  • emptyheaded,
  • moneyless,
  • devoid of,
  • scanty,
  • Sans,
  • Unfrequent,
  • Subtile,
  • barely sufficient,
  • bad,
  • Mentally Handicapped,
  • faulty,
  • defective,
  • unconcluded,
  • not enough,
  • for the birds,
  • skimper,
  • unintelligent,
  • extra ordinary,
  • thick-witted,
  • less,
  • on the breadline,
  • out-standing,
  • not what it was,
  • few and far between,
  • on the rocks,
  • not good enough,
  • in the making,
  • Thick-headed,
  • rusty,
  • stupid,
  • dirt poor,
  • free from,
  • malfunctioning,
  • played out,
  • piddly,
  • not intelligent,
  • deprived of,
  • in the rough,
  • dead broke,
  • in default,
  • flawed,
  • STANDOUT,
  • Beggared,
  • out of gas,
  • unsatisfactory,
  • unprovided with,
  • scrimper.
  •piddly (adjective)
  • more rinkydink,
  • rinky-dink,
  • most rinky dink,
  • more rinky-dink,
  • rinky dink,
  • more rinky dink,
  • most rinkydink,
  • most rinky-dink.
  •rare (adjective)
  • more unfrequent,
  • un likely,
  • un commonest,
  • sub-tile,
  • most attenuated,
  • un commoner,
  • more recherche,
  • sub tiler,
  • un thinkable,
  • un common,
  • un-usual,
  • most attenuate,
  • un-likely,
  • un likeliest,
  • un usual,
  • un-likelier,
  • few far between,
  • subtiler,
  • rarest,
  • sub tile,
  • subtilest,
  • un-common,
  • sub-tiler,
  • most semioccasional,
  • un likelier,
  • un-wonted,
  • un-imaginable,
  • un frequent,
  • un-frequent,
  • most recherche,
  • un-commoner,
  • more seldom,
  • out the ordinary,
  • out ordinary,
  • un-likeliest,
  • more attenuated,
  • semi occasional,
  • un wonted,
  • in conceivable,
  • out of ordinary,
  • in-conceivable,
  • semi-occasional,
  • more semioccasional,
  • most unfrequent,
  • un imaginable,
  • un-thinkable,
  • most seldom,
  • extra-ordinary,
  • few,
  • more attenuate.
  •rusty (adjective)
  • unpracticed,
  • not what was,
  • un practiced,
  • un-practiced.
  •scant/scanty (adjective)
  • most minimal.
  •scarce (adjective)
  • in short supply,
  • at premium,
  • more truncated,
  • most truncated.
  •second-rate (adjective)
  • more secondbest,
  • second rate,
  • secondrate,
  • most second best,
  • more second-best,
  • most secondrate,
  • secondclass,
  • second-class,
  • most secondbest,
  • most second-best,
  • more second best,
  • secondbest.
  •short (adjective)
  • low on,
  • shortest,
  • shorthanded.
  •slender/slim (adjective)
  • re-mote.
  •standout (adjective)
  • out standing,
  • pre eminent.
  •stupid (adjective)
  • in discreet,
  • illadvised,
  • in-sensate,
  • more loser,
  • in-discreet,
  • dummier,
  • most loser,
  • un-thinking,
  • more thick headed,
  • in sensate,
  • dummiest,
  • out lunch,
  • most thick-headed,
  • more thick-headed,
  • un thinking,
  • most thick headed,
  • half witted,
  • thick headed.
  •thick-witted (adjective)
  • thick witted,
  • thickwitted.
  •unacceptable (adjective)
  • untenable,
  • intolerable,
  • unacceptable,
  • inadmissible,
  • inappropriate.
  •unfinished (adjective)
  • more unconcluded,
  • most unfashioned,
  • un-concluded,
  • more unfashioned,
  • un-fashioned,
  • un-refined,
  • un concluded,
  • more uncompleted,
  • unadorned,
  • un finished,
  • un perfected,
  • in rough,
  • roughhewn,
  • not done,
  • un fashioned,
  • most unassembled,
  • un-perfected,
  • Unfashioned,
  • most roughhewn,
  • most unconcluded,
  • more dabbling,
  • un-assembled,
  • un assembled,
  • un fulfilled,
  • un-fulfilled,
  • most uncompleted,
  • un-adorned,
  • un adorned,
  • in making,
  • most unfulfilled,
  • most dabbling,
  • more roughhewn,
  • more unfulfilled,
  • more unassembled,
  • un-completed,
  • un refined,
  • un completed,
  • un-finished.
  •unintelligent (adjective)
  • un-intelligent,
  • empty headed,
  • un intelligent.
  •unsatisfactory (adjective)
  • for birds,
  • more disconcerting,
  • up setting,
  • up-setting,
  • un welcome,
  • un satisfactory,
  • most disconcerting,
  • more vexing,
  • un-desirable,
  • un-satisfactory,
  • most vexing,
  • dis quieting,
  • dis-quieting,
  • dis concerting,
  • un desirable,
  • dis-concerting.
  •up in the air (adjective)
  • inconclusive.
  •wanting (adjective)
  • more away,
  • co oked,
  • co-oked,
  • most away,
  • out gas,
  • most cooked,
  • more cooked.

• n.

  •
  • dire,
  • low-grade,
  • pitiful,
  • terrible,
  • disgraceful,
  • embarrassing.
  •deficient (noun)
  • insufficient,
  • short,
  • substandard,
  • inferior,
  • lean,
  • nonstandard,
  • poor,
  • depleted,
  • light,
  • too little.
  •feeble-minded (noun)
  • Feeble-minded.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • property.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • old,
  • deprived,
  • lack,
  • stretched,
  • want for,
  • underresourced,
  • pressed.
  •
  • starved,
  • Challenged.
  •
  • starving,
  • under.
  •
  • odd.
  •
  • miss.
  •Other relevant words:
  • ignitor,
  • spare part,
  • petty larceny,
  • complete,
  • short-staffed,
  • min,
  • partially,
  • constituent,
  • cocker,
  • obscure,
  • simpleton,
  • laughable,
  • unmistakable,
  • instant,
  • tike,
  • ill-chosen,
  • hoagie,
  • minimum,
  • press,
  • bragging,
  • adulterate,
  • ameliorate,
  • nestling,
  • botchy,
  • bit by bit,
  • prodigious,
  • peachy,
  • distressing,
  • spend a penny,
  • great,
  • light source,
  • president bush,
  • average,
  • ruin,
  • filthy,
  • unrealized,
  • tend,
  • wedge,
  • groovy,
  • deformed,
  • out or keeping,
  • plaything,
  • compendious,
  • jury-rigged,
  • ecumenical,
  • knock down,
  • infirm,
  • abstemious,
  • timid,
  • slacken,
  • escape,
  • panty,
  • narrow,
  • touchy,
  • complain,
  • get off,
  • clunky,
  • ebbing,
  • unclean,
  • decelerate,
  • roughened,
  • giving,
  • back,
  • foundation,
  • fall,
  • rickety,
  • corrupt,
  • flimsy,
  • loosen,
  • subject,
  • away,
  • fatigued,
  • stinker,
  • consummate,
  • bonkers,
  • turned,
  • ratty,
  • denudate,
  • diddle,
  • detestable,
  • all-embracing,
  • blemish,
  • section,
  • lilliputian,
  • developing,
  • littler,
  • pull down,
  • virtually,
  • self-aggrandising,
  • stunned,
  • luminosity,
  • apparent,
  • unornamented,
  • cockeyed,
  • play,
  • illumine,
  • casual,
  • curt,
  • sparingly,
  • corking,
  • tactless,
  • gloomy,
  • mismatched,
  • refutable,
  • hoary,
  • insubstantial,
  • decline,
  • pudding head,
  • color,
  • square,
  • scoop,
  • undecorated,
  • separate,
  • below,
  • relieve oneself,
  • pile,
  • turn,
  • arrant,
  • slapdash,
  • complaint,
  • nude,
  • grinder,
  • land,
  • middle,
  • ham-fisted,
  • dead,
  • muffle,
  • falsify,
  • tardy,
  • fiddling,
  • nonstarter,
  • depression,
  • cabin class,
  • prop,
  • unavailing,
  • deep,
  • ferment,
  • ominous,
  • disordered,
  • waste,
  • just,
  • meliorate,
  • on the loose,
  • dig,
  • cheap,
  • pack together,
  • rough-cut,
  • balmy,
  • esurient,
  • wide,
  • set off,
  • little by little,
  • childlike,
  • freak,
  • blanket,
  • subordinate word,
  • luminousness,
  • excavate,
  • fille,
  • out of practice,
  • ground,
  • measure,
  • left,
  • featherbrained,
  • quondam,
  • bittie,
  • teensy-weensy,
  • work,
  • exhausted,
  • au naturel,
  • scarceness,
  • dispatch,
  • acetify,
  • neat,
  • midget,
  • polish off,
  • bump off,
  • improve,
  • contort,
  • amend,
  • establish,
  • loopy,
  • illumination,
  • cold-shoulder,
  • raw,
  • bleak,
  • scratchy,
  • pugnacious,
  • fruity,
  • division,
  • approximative,
  • blameable,
  • daft,
  • crackbrained,
  • pamper,
  • pop,
  • imply,
  • done for,
  • ailment,
  • nauseating,
  • underling,
  • leftover,
  • not bad,
  • meagrely,
  • scummy,
  • melt off,
  • acidity,
  • feckless,
  • bunglesome,
  • urinate,
  • igniter,
  • loser,
  • need,
  • recent,
  • sickening,
  • spoilt,
  • bundle,
  • pudden-head,
  • moo,
  • brightness,
  • crappy,
  • tartness,
  • fair,
  • fierce,
  • kick,
  • behind,
  • count,
  • visible light,
  • fagged,
  • champaign,
  • fragile,
  • perfective,
  • downcast,
  • light within,
  • percentage,
  • secondary winding,
  • tiresome,
  • ho-hum,
  • loco,
  • boggy,
  • lightheaded,
  • decrepit,
  • palpable,
  • roughly,
  • blockheaded,
  • teentsy,
  • ply,
  • in stages,
  • lighter,
  • well-nigh,
  • dog-tired,
  • undeserving,
  • unsmooth,
  • stark,
  • down in the mouth,
  • crotch hair,
  • chapped,
  • mute,
  • untimely,
  • disunite,
  • primitive,
  • large,
  • overabundance,
  • chaparral,
  • glowering,
  • faint,
  • imperfect tense,
  • frown,
  • mastered,
  • character,
  • peculiar,
  • crippled,
  • unawares,
  • horrific,
  • wonky,
  • leave out,
  • tawdry,
  • grudging,
  • sordid,
  • sharp-set,
  • fifth wheel,
  • refine,
  • dullard,
  • affair,
  • flirt,
  • voice,
  • emaciated,
  • cater,
  • take down,
  • scrub,
  • distorted,
  • assorted,
  • smutty,
  • youngster,
  • quaggy,
  • unkept,
  • stand,
  • barmy,
  • handless,
  • misfortunate,
  • fail,
  • render,
  • everlasting,
  • tripping,
  • boring,
  • freehanded,
  • nigh,
  • thickheaded,
  • dependent,
  • in small stages,
  • publicise,
  • component part,
  • mortifying,
  • rough out,
  • pall,
  • moth-eaten,
  • sloughy,
  • plainly,
  • make water,
  • start,
  • knit,
  • miry,
  • near,
  • hoagy,
  • moderately,
  • foot,
  • babe,
  • sufficiency,
  • pitiable,
  • skimp,
  • unfertile,
  • blabbermouthed,
  • shrub,
  • addict,
  • vulgar,
  • indigent,
  • onetime,
  • negative,
  • cheapjack,
  • minuscule,
  • all-encompassing,
  • singular,
  • olympian,
  • wrongly,
  • diffident,
  • role,
  • halting,
  • marshy,
  • lose,
  • free,
  • low-toned,
  • clear,
  • twine,
  • torpedo,
  • zep,
  • dark,
  • fatheaded,
  • modified,
  • insufficiency,
  • secondary coil,
  • dreaded,
  • indulge,
  • thickset,
  • unmingled,
  • ticklish,
  • unpatterned,
  • bring down,
  • mean value,
  • raspy,
  • strain,
  • kid,
  • watery,
  • belatedly,
  • go down,
  • unaffixed,
  • inert,
  • sleazy,
  • askew,
  • infinitesimal,
  • busted,
  • clean,
  • false,
  • myopic,
  • cosset,
  • miscellaneous,
  • manifest,
  • alight,
  • bastardly,
  • shortly,
  • fond,
  • wispy,
  • spoil,
  • perch,
  • disuse,
  • alkali,
  • girl,
  • left over,
  • circumscribed,
  • lour,
  • grim,
  • slow down,
  • unspecific,
  • maize,
  • get down,
  • excessiveness,
  • heavy,
  • necessitous,
  • idle,
  • informal,
  • down feather,
  • innocent,
  • crude oil,
  • dampen,
  • punk rock,
  • drink down,
  • cursory,
  • batty,
  • absurd,
  • latterly,
  • evident,
  • thickly,
  • devour,
  • slow up,
  • afflicted,
  • function,
  • offensive,
  • heavyset,
  • smashing,
  • full general,
  • junkie,
  • toughie,
  • unripened,
  • debased,
  • full-grown,
  • provision,
  • compact car,
  • dalliance,
  • misfire,
  • unaccented,
  • dispense with,
  • soft,
  • omit,
  • speculative,
  • confutable,
  • depart,
  • scatty,
  • slack,
  • damnable,
  • disabled,
  • fearful,
  • somewhat,
  • low-spirited,
  • u-boat,
  • mentally ill,
  • slurred,
  • ill-formed,
  • enceinte,
  • deform,
  • quetch,
  • regretful,
  • wiped out,
  • center,
  • young woman,
  • moment,
  • intend,
  • older,
  • missy,
  • bully,
  • illume,
  • stinking,
  • famine,
  • adult,
  • thin out,
  • redundant,
  • nonsensical,
  • unbiased,
  • fire,
  • worn-out,
  • shameful,
  • dilute,
  • pretty,
  • bumpy,
  • first,
  • unpractised,
  • funny,
  • subsidiary,
  • stunted,
  • fallacious,
  • tyke,
  • toy dog,
  • insensible,
  • home,
  • let down,
  • rock oil,
  • shocking,
  • understructure,
  • bang-up,
  • paucity,
  • unreachable,
  • bolt down,
  • lately,
  • root,
  • unexpended,
  • kvetch,
  • require,
  • blameful,
  • harsh,
  • powder compact,
  • flaw,
  • uncomplicated,
  • blue,
  • thudding,
  • holding,
  • inadequacy,
  • bungled,
  • unpaired,
  • holler,
  • senseless,
  • uncollectible,
  • scarcely,
  • plain stitch,
  • skeletal,
  • stupefied,
  • sullen,
  • light-headed,
  • unvarnished,
  • apparently,
  • exceeding,
  • subdue,
  • blowzy,
  • floor,
  • fossil oil,
  • unaccepted,
  • sunk,
  • loathsome,
  • later,
  • tilt,
  • unsuccessful person,
  • lightsome,
  • downhearted,
  • obviously,
  • unclouded,
  • cheapness,
  • inner light,
  • immaterial,
  • grievous,
  • svelte,
  • dawdling,
  • stinky,
  • cornerstone,
  • polish,
  • drug addict,
  • nifty,
  • pointless,
  • around the bend,
  • sound off,
  • substitute,
  • slay,
  • pour down,
  • subtraction,
  • impoverished,
  • spark,
  • thug,
  • let loose,
  • dour,
  • surfeit,
  • young lady,
  • rummy,
  • slimy,
  • tinge,
  • touchwood,
  • persona,
  • skinny,
  • patently,
  • depressed,
  • nimiety,
  • loose-fitting,
  • tattling,
  • meanspirited,
  • developmentally challenged,
  • save,
  • cumbersome,
  • child,
  • parsimonious,
  • mussy,
  • unendurable,
  • topic,
  • scrubby,
  • open,
  • set forth,
  • self-aggrandizing,
  • junior-grade,
  • numb,
  • nonperformance,
  • wasteland,
  • colour,
  • poor boy,
  • sick,
  • unwieldy,
  • incorrectly,
  • sourness,
  • surplusage,
  • hapless,
  • small fry,
  • hole,
  • confused,
  • bats,
  • unbiassed,
  • shortsighted,
  • cancelled,
  • adequate,
  • step-in,
  • full,
  • wring,
  • pillock,
  • fledgling,
  • elementary,
  • scarred,
  • hour,
  • radix,
  • heavy-handed,
  • shadowy,
  • wad,
  • wakeful,
  • perfect tense,
  • unrefined,
  • abruptly,
  • wearisome,
  • free-base,
  • belly-up,
  • wanton,
  • tremendous,
  • fundament,
  • think of,
  • overlook,
  • gone,
  • chummy,
  • skew-whiff,
  • light-colored,
  • pass water,
  • region,
  • goon,
  • scrimy,
  • release,
  • absentminded,
  • puddle,
  • gaunt,
  • indispose,
  • ignite,
  • poorness,
  • frightful,
  • boney,
  • liberate,
  • best,
  • desolate,
  • cut down,
  • strong-armer,
  • damage,
  • lemon yellow,
  • ruined,
  • wide-eyed,
  • arcminute,
  • rugged,
  • uncut,
  • large-minded,
  • remaining,
  • broken in,
  • washy,
  • with child,
  • noisome,
  • imperfectly,
  • pee,
  • dim,
  • progressive tense,
  • ridiculous,
  • tenuous,
  • stint,
  • overleap,
  • calorie-free,
  • set out,
  • washed-out,
  • humble,
  • unleash,
  • fiddle,
  • queer,
  • across-the-board,
  • compress,
  • soggy,
  • embryonal,
  • homely,
  • legal injury,
  • go through,
  • stem,
  • shrimpy,
  • demolish,
  • mo,
  • thoroughgoing,
  • pocket-sized,
  • belittled,
  • bumbling,
  • relax,
  • round-eyed,
  • ludicrous,
  • incorrect,
  • tatty,
  • split up,
  • bit,
  • wacky,
  • keen,
  • pantie,
  • stupid person,
  • moody,
  • prominent,
  • deficit,
  • understaffed,
  • nonfunctional,
  • start out,
  • tight,
  • unversed,
  • impoverishment,
  • unseasonable,
  • about,
  • in straitened circumstances,
  • weakly,
  • kookie,
  • midway,
  • air pocket,
  • radical,
  • strip,
  • bargain rate,
  • blotchy,
  • economical,
  • boisterous,
  • unstable,
  • bettor,
  • stripped-down,
  • severe,
  • belated,
  • hard up,
  • piece,
  • ugly,
  • footling,
  • disunited,
  • squeeze,
  • rarefied,
  • spacious,
  • pure,
  • bit-by-bit,
  • abject,
  • scurvy,
  • slap-up,
  • at large,
  • mar,
  • former,
  • queasy,
  • submarine,
  • reduce,
  • first gear,
  • grating,
  • petit larceny,
  • damp,
  • blunt,
  • strange,
  • uncomplete,
  • tough,
  • staring,
  • underage,
  • risky,
  • suffering,
  • short-circuit,
  • weedy,
  • frugal,
  • cut,
  • ungainly,
  • plenty,
  • lower-ranking,
  • inglorious,
  • mere,
  • drop,
  • neutral,
  • incompetent person,
  • behindhand,
  • abstracted,
  • piss,
  • low-cal,
  • halt,
  • requisite,
  • recently,
  • noncontinuous,
  • feeble,
  • theme,
  • grownup,
  • bag,
  • basal,
  • miserable,
  • runty,
  • swooning,
  • horrible,
  • negligence,
  • scraggy,
  • monstrous,
  • tip,
  • air,
  • jolly,
  • cadaverous,
  • lamentable,
  • lemon tree,
  • sometime,
  • mentally retarded,
  • crowing,
  • chintzy,
  • trim,
  • pro forma,
  • bomber,
  • braggy,
  • sluggish,
  • al qaida,
  • superfluous,
  • crushed,
  • indefensible,
  • hood,
  • backwards,
  • dolt,
  • feebleminded,
  • hardly,
  • oil,
  • rarified,
  • rocky,
  • bum,
  • utter,
  • dandy,
  • dizzy,
  • particular,
  • overtone,
  • unloosen,
  • downwardly,
  • depress,
  • stringy,
  • push down,
  • turn down,
  • shortcoming,
  • stopgap,
  • downward,
  • meaningless,
  • piteous,
  • oecumenical,
  • rearward,
  • desert,
  • haywire,
  • down pat,
  • softened,
  • dotty,
  • superior general,
  • discredited,
  • unenviable,
  • buggy,
  • brusk,
  • superficial,
  • unmatched,
  • pained,
  • succinct,
  • muted,
  • thing,
  • opprobrious,
  • hyponym,
  • pack,
  • whacky,
  • magnanimous,
  • approximate,
  • ignore,
  • loony,
  • lightness,
  • append,
  • tinny,
  • wooden-headed,
  • belongings,
  • dirty,
  • fry,
  • impossible,
  • mollycoddle,
  • rasping,
  • forth,
  • scandalous,
  • saturnine,
  • give up,
  • escaped,
  • furnish,
  • hoodlum,
  • bitty,
  • ham-handed,
  • shortstop,
  • of late,
  • worldwide,
  • garble,
  • barely,
  • embryotic,
  • split,
  • special,
  • inelaborate,
  • itsy-bitsy,
  • motley,
  • hollow out,
  • leaning,
  • take a leak,
  • baseborn,
  • midst,
  • remove,
  • silly,
  • bony,
  • tone down,
  • untalented,
  • unsubtle,
  • contribution,
  • ill-timed,
  • nut,
  • odious,
  • frightening,
  • knit stitch,
  • infrastructure,
  • small-scale,
  • provide,
  • twist,
  • swell,
  • intimately,
  • off-key,
  • spent,
  • sorry,
  • boastfully,
  • tolerant,
  • rust-brown,
  • submarine sandwich,
  • ravenous,
  • break up,
  • glower,
  • office,
  • butterfingered,
  • kindling,
  • dense,
  • publicize,
  • purposeless,
  • lax,
  • nasty,
  • disconnected,
  • handsome,
  • braggart,
  • thinly,
  • unhorse,
  • inclination,
  • preposterous,
  • all-inclusive,
  • incline,
  • black,
  • alligatored,
  • add,
  • microscopical,
  • unadulterated,
  • needed,
  • hone,
  • sticky,
  • nasal,
  • desperate,
  • liberal,
  • rebuff,
  • curious,
  • earthy,
  • surplus,
  • unbearable,
  • gross,
  • gawky,
  • fire up,
  • universal,
  • undesirable,
  • dreadful,
  • low-pitched,
  • parting,
  • mucky,
  • ill-shapen,
  • minute of arc,
  • suddenly,
  • fearsome,
  • cheesy,
  • lighting,
  • giddy,
  • woeful,
  • worn out,
  • awful,
  • piddle,
  • gravid,
  • second banana,
  • wishing,
  • shitty,
  • supererogatory,
  • expectant,
  • field,
  • most,
  • punter,
  • kooky,
  • upset,
  • amateur,
  • swelled,
  • poor people,
  • sparkle,
  • second,
  • al qaeda,
  • extra,
  • inauspicious,
  • partial tone,
  • manifestly,
  • atrophied,
  • consume,
  • part with,
  • place,
  • apathetic,
  • stocky,
  • undefined,
  • belt down,
  • basis,
  • dally,
  • tardily,
  • curtly,
  • deprivation,
  • morose,
  • unexploited,
  • required,
  • progressive,
  • spotty,
  • empty,
  • vainglorious,
  • exquisite,
  • niggling,
  • found,
  • murder,
  • horrifying,
  • closely,
  • covenant,
  • deadening,
  • menial,
  • frowzy,
  • immoral,
  • openhanded,
  • airheaded,
  • culpable,
  • to a lesser extent,
  • base of operations,
  • attribute,
  • wagerer,
  • unfitting,
  • sheer,
  • unapproachable,
  • bankruptcy,
  • stand in,
  • flagitious,
  • nonaged,
  • foot soldier,
  • glum,
  • half-witted,
  • constrict,
  • warp,
  • passably,
  • buddy-buddy,
  • unmated,
  • rough in,
  • cracking,
  • rum,
  • scotch,
  • poor fish,
  • have in mind,
  • pocket-size,
  • offended,
  • core out,
  • wrongfulness,
  • unsheathed,
  • economy class,
  • groundwork,
  • jolty,
  • boastful,
  • be given,
  • visible radiation,
  • grown,
  • naked,
  • shoot down,
  • thorough,
  • ebb,
  • coddle,
  • sac,
  • finespun,
  • adenoidal,
  • fill in,
  • nuts,
  • hero sandwich,
  • underweight,
  • nucleotide,
  • smash,
  • gimpy,
  • dimension,
  • reasonably,
  • lower berth,
  • slowly,
  • ropey,
  • despicable,
  • gamboge,
  • uneffective,
  • petroleum,
  • direful,
  • slatternly,
  • in part,
  • signify,
  • amount,
  • fairly,
  • privation,
  • jumpy,
  • humiliated,
  • fully grown,
  • disadvantaged,
  • run,
  • lightly,
  • weensy,
  • incompatible,
  • patent,
  • inapplicable,
  • abominable,
  • brusque,
  • fumbling,
  • double-dyed,
  • bargain-priced,
  • unreal,
  • extensive,
  • low gear,
  • rarely,
  • insignificant,
  • twinkle,
  • unprocessed,
  • illuminate,
  • supplying,
  • high-risk,
  • theatrical role,
  • ignominious,
  • disqualify,
  • unsure,
  • deplorable,
  • rude,
  • jolting,
  • wee-wee,
  • almost,
  • cut-price,
  • take off,
  • air hole,
  • derisory,
  • rancid,
  • haggard,
  • gaumless,
  • wish,
  • cock-a-hoop,
  • kill,
  • punk rocker,
  • venial,
  • improper,
  • unsubdivided,
  • meek,
  • featherbed,
  • baggy,
  • substructure,
  • leaden,
  • cosmopolitan,
  • passing,
  • piffling,
  • desire,
  • unfledged,
  • humbled,
  • lite,
  • sapless,
  • nutty,
  • unmixed,
  • dewy-eyed,
  • carelessness,
  • surpassing,
  • slenderly,
  • cripple,
  • cut price,
  • out of reach,
  • bounteous,
  • rust,
  • unentitled,
  • acidulate,
  • previous,
  • slenderize,
  • tedious,
  • muffled,
  • speechless,
  • entail,
  • micturate,
  • jejune,
  • metameric,
  • butcherly,
  • break,
  • disregard,
  • bighearted,
  • waterlogged,
  • erstwhile,
  • luminance,
  • pretermit,
  • obtuse,
  • partial derivative,
  • icky,
  • thready,
  • list,
  • blowsy,
  • perfective tense,
  • neglectfulness,
  • tiddler,
  • marginal,
  • horrendous,
  • make-do,
  • overemotional,
  • sodding,
  • pouch,
  • improvised,
  • short-change,
  • forgetful,
  • light up,
  • unstuck,
  • left-handed,
  • easy,
  • starvation,
  • simple-minded,
  • famished,
  • component,
  • supernumerary,
  • one-time,
  • sack,
  • especial,
  • unproblematic,
  • root word,
  • shaver,
  • fine-tune,
  • confutative,
  • interracial,
  • retard,
  • imbecile,
  • continuous tense,
  • spunk,
  • contract,
  • censurable,
  • tinder,
  • otiose,
  • low-down,
  • slim down,
  • express,
  • awkward,
  • brightness level,
  • weakness,
  • deaf,
  • hero,
  • evidently,
  • nauseous,
  • futile,
  • summary,
  • mild,
  • unripe,
  • muddy,
  • unspeakable,
  • blameworthy,
  • foul,
  • acidify,
  • thick-skulled,
  • flunk,
  • rotten,
  • sterile,
  • badness,
  • downwards,
  • sectioned,
  • share,
  • squashy,
  • gravelly,
  • misshapen,
  • poorly,
  • haphazardly,
  • pigboat,
  • young,
  • rearwards,
  • pedestal,
  • squandered,
  • unforesightful,
  • encompassing,
  • nipper,
  • one-half,
  • splotched,
  • slant,
  • issue,
  • dubyuh,
  • overindulgence,
  • green,
  • so-so,
  • scraggly,
  • peccable,
  • fault,
  • toss off,
  • bountiful,
  • poverty-stricken,
  • denude,
  • dread,
  • sundry,
  • benumb,
  • weigh,
  • washed-up,
  • painful,
  • pubic hair,
  • frowsy,
  • diminished,
  • dazed,
  • round the bend,
  • hateful,
  • low-level,
  • shitless,
  • badly,
  • stinting,
  • stepwise,
  • wicked,
  • divide,
  • vacuous,
  • vauntingly,
  • dismount,
  • dispirited,
  • portion,
  • small-minded,
  • crackers,
  • concordat,
  • inordinateness,
  • unloose,
  • segmented,
  • nether,
  • forged,
  • game,
  • pee-pee,
  • make,
  • soft-witted,
  • swampy,
  • panoptic,
  • think,
  • angle,
  • stand for,
  • unrealised,
  • lopsided,
  • silent,
  • nitwitted,
  • step-by-step,
  • loggerheaded,
  • talebearing.
  •sparse
  • thin.

Paraphrases for Deficient:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    insufficient.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    insufficient.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    substandard, impaired, sufficient, handicapped, sub-standard, disabled, inappropriate, non-compliant, bad, scarce, missing, underdeveloped, dysfunctional, loss-making, scant, inaccurate, erroneous, absent, incapable, scanty, wrong.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    shortage, shortfall, failure, paucity, weakness.
  • Verb, past participle
    depleted, deprived, constrained, overstretched, desired, Compromised, impaired, handicapped, disabled.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    defective, flawed, imperfect, inefficient, unsatisfactory, faulty, infirm, retarded, ineffective, lacking, inadequate, incorrect, unsound, patchy.
  • Proper noun, singular
    insufficient, inadequate.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    deficiency, inadequacy, lack, unsatisfactory, inadequate.
  • Verb, past participle
    flawed.

Antonyms for Deficient:

• adj.

  • imperfect, inadequate
    enough, satisfactory, superfluous, excessive, ample, perfect, sufficient, abundant, flawless, faultless, adequate, strong.
  • Other antonyms:
    expanded, teeming, excellent, exceptional, generous, classical, grand, nifty, mean, classic, large, terrific, standard, minimal, acceptable, uninjured, stellar, better, complete, king-size, fine, prime, luxuriant, super, lavish, plenteous, marvelous, fabulous, boss, unimpaired, sterling, noble, crackerjack, passable, middling, unsurpassed, abounding, completed, superior, dandy, mediocre, superb, jumbo, suitable, borderline, top, intact, substantial, satisfying, fair, overflowing, wonderful, considerable, splendid, liberal, great, sensational, banner, divine, finished, tip-top, first class, premium, tolerable, hefty, average, fancy, special, jim-dandy, heavenly, par excellence, oversize, supernal, integral, superlative, keen, groovy, neat, useful, entire, plentiful, bounteous, unexceptional, largish, sizable, top-notch, rich, A1, worthy, choice, first-rate, unbroken, gratifying, respectable, unmarred, so-so, bountiful, capital, enlarged, swell, slick, full, undamaged, equal, decent, copious, big, whole, high-grade.

Homophones for Deficient:

• debasement, defacement.