Definition for Deficit:

• Amount by which esp. sum of money is too small; excess of liabilities over assets. [ French]

Synonyms for Deficit:

• n.

  •arrears (noun)
  • arrears,
  • balance dues.
  •attribute (noun)
  • deficit,
  • shortfall.
  •debit (noun)
  • collectibles,
  • collectible,
  • amount due.
  •debt (noun)
  • indebtedness,
  • liability,
  • mortgage,
  • note,
  • loan,
  • delinquency,
  • pledge,
  • iou,
  • voucher,
  • default.
  •deficiency (noun)
  • de merit,
  • de-merit,
  • de fault,
  • de faults,
  • in sufficiency,
  • de-faults,
  • de merits,
  • in sufficiencies,
  • de-merits,
  • in-sufficiency,
  • de-fault,
  • in-sufficiencies,
  • insufficiences,
  • inability hack it.
  •failure (noun)
  • loser,
  • Unsuccess,
  • non-success,
  • faux pas,
  • washout,
  • lemon,
  • total loss,
  • fiasco,
  • nonsuccess,
  • Non-performance,
  • nonfeasance,
  • nonperformance,
  • lead balloon,
  • sinking ship,
  • implosion,
  • unsuccessfulness,
  • insolvency.
  •poverty (noun)
  • impecuniousness,
  • penuriousness,
  • abjection,
  • famine,
  • vacancy,
  • pennilessness,
  • impoverishment,
  • underdevelopment,
  • penury,
  • Neediness,
  • pauperism,
  • Impecuniosity,
  • under-development,
  • Necessitousness.
  •shortage (noun)
  • insufficiency,
  • imperfection,
  • shortcoming.
  •shortage of something needed, required (noun)
  • DUES,
  • due bill,
  • in the red,
  • in hock,
  • red ink,
  • dead horse,
  • in the hole.
  •unsuccess (noun)
  • un successes,
  • un-success,
  • un success,
  • un-successes.
  •unsuccessfulness (noun)
  • un successfulnesses,
  • un-successfulness,
  • un successfulness,
  • un-successfulnesses.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • absence,
  • nonattendance,
  • scarceness,
  • loss,
  • scantness,
  • Without,
  • defect,
  • absent,
  • bankruptcy.
  •
  • scarcity,
  • paucity,
  • underage.

Paraphrases for Deficit:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    shortfall.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    shortfall.

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    deficiency.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    insufficiency.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    invalids, states.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    defect, scarcity, debt, inadequacy, dearth, loophole, incompetence, disadvantage, backwardness.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    shortcoming, deficiency, flaw, surplus.

Antonyms for Deficit:

• n.

  • deficit
    excess.
  • quantity
    lead.
  • shortage of something needed, required
    abundance, satisfaction, sufficiency, perfection, success, superfluousness, enough, adequacy, advantage.
  • Other antonyms:
    bountifulness, wealth, copiousness, plenty, amplitude, surplus, opulence.

Deficit Sentence Examples:

• Under the present circumstances it would be far better to leave the rates as they are than to enact a bill carrying the peril of a deficit.

• If there was a deficit he made it up out of his own pocket, and when the revenues expanded he paid himself back.

Homophones for Deficit:

• defect, deep south, debauched, debased, dibasic acid, deep-seated, data-based, defaced, devastate, divagate, depict, diffused, depicted, dope sheet, deep-chested, divest, deep-set, dopastat, dovecote, de facto, diapsid, diapsida, deposit, deep pocket.

Hypernym for Deficit:

• n.

  • attribute
    oxygen deficit.
  • possession
    budget deficit, trade deficit.

Hyponym for Deficit:

• n.

  • attribute
    inadequacy, deficiency, insufficiency.
  • possession
    liabilities.
  • quantity
    score.
  • state
    lack, deficiency, want.