473 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ɪnˈadɪkwəsi], [ ɪnˈadɪkwəsi], [ ɪ_n_ˈa_d_ɪ_k_w_ə_s_i]

Similar words for inadequacy:

• other relevant words (adjective)
• absence (noun)
• attribute (noun)
• dearth (noun)
• default (noun)
• deficit (noun)
• difficulty, trouble (noun)
• disadvantage(s) (noun)
• disproportion (noun)
• failure (noun)
• feebleness (noun)
• imbalance (noun)
• imperfection (noun)
• impotence (noun)
• inability (noun)
• inadequacy (noun)
• incapability (noun)
• incompetence (noun)
• ineffectiveness (noun)
• ineffectuality (noun)
• inferiority (noun)
• insolvency (noun)
• insufficiency (noun)
• inutility (noun)
• lack (noun)
• nonfeasance (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• pittance (noun)
• poverty (noun)
• shortage (noun)
• shortfall (noun)
• thinness (noun)
• unsuccess (noun)
• unsuccessfulness (noun)
• want (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for inadequacy

Hypernyms for inadequacy

Hyponyms for inadequacy

Synonyms for Inadequacy:

• adj.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • amount.

• n.

  •
  • inadequate,
  • scant,
  • tight,
  • not go far,
  • meagre,
  • drawback,
  • pitiful,
  • in short/limited supply,
  • insufficient,
  • miserable,
  • derisory.
  •
  • shakiness,
  • strong,
  • heavy-handedness,
  • amateurishness,
  • affect.
  • absence (noun)
  • need,
  • unavailability,
  • privation,
  • void,
  • drought,
  • omission,
  • inadequacy,
  • unavailabilities.
  • attribute (noun)
  • deficiency,
  • insufficiency.
  • dearth (noun)
  • defect.
  • default (noun)
  • error,
  • transgression,
  • nonpayment,
  • blunder,
  • lapse,
  • offense,
  • disregard,
  • slight,
  • oversight,
  • delinquency,
  • overlooking,
  • vice,
  • dereliction,
  • wrongdoing.
  • deficit (noun)
  • loss,
  • in the red,
  • DUES,
  • arrears.
  • difficulty, trouble (noun)
  • disadvantage(s).
  • disadvantage(s) (noun)
  • liability,
  • burden,
  • hamper,
  • hindrance,
  • hardship,
  • deprivation,
  • nuisance,
  • objection,
  • bar,
  • disability,
  • adverse circumstance,
  • weak point,
  • problem,
  • restraint,
  • impediment,
  • obstacle,
  • stumbling block,
  • snag,
  • blocking,
  • imposition,
  • detriment,
  • handicap,
  • inconvenience.
  • disproportion (noun)
  • discrepancy,
  • unevenness,
  • disparity,
  • asymmetry,
  • irregularity,
  • difference,
  • inequality.
  • failure (noun)
  • downfall,
  • wreck,
  • fiasco,
  • bungle,
  • rout,
  • nonperformance,
  • faux pas,
  • bomb,
  • total loss,
  • flash in the pan,
  • bust,
  • flop,
  • miscarriage,
  • decline,
  • implosion,
  • nonfeasance,
  • frustration,
  • misstep,
  • sinking ship,
  • Unsuccess,
  • non-success,
  • turkey,
  • defeat,
  • washout,
  • nonsuccess,
  • Non-performance,
  • breakdown,
  • stoppage,
  • false step,
  • checkmate,
  • lemon,
  • botch,
  • insolvency,
  • deterioration,
  • stalemate,
  • loser,
  • lead balloon,
  • collapse,
  • rupture,
  • bankruptcy,
  • decay,
  • abortion,
  • misadventure,
  • overthrow,
  • mess,
  • unsuccessfulness.
  • feebleness (noun)
  • flimsiness,
  • frailty,
  • effeteness,
  • exhaustion,
  • insignificance,
  • frailness,
  • disease,
  • languor,
  • senility,
  • delicacy,
  • decrepitude,
  • unhealthiness,
  • lameness,
  • lassitude,
  • debility,
  • Sickliness,
  • malaise,
  • Infirmness,
  • infirmity,
  • Etiolation,
  • enervation.
  • imbalance (noun)
  • disproportion.
  • imperfection (noun)
  • disfigurement,
  • taint,
  • gremlin,
  • catch,
  • incompleteness,
  • deformity,
  • foible,
  • blemish,
  • stain,
  • blotch,
  • sin,
  • spoilage,
  • fallibility,
  • peccadillo,
  • faultiness.
  • impotence (noun)
  • weakness,
  • impotence,
  • incapability.
  • inability (noun)
  • in-capacitations,
  • dis-qualification,
  • in capacitation,
  • in efficiency,
  • in efficiencies,
  • dis-qualifications,
  • in-efficiencies,
  • in-efficiency,
  • dis qualification,
  • in aptitudes,
  • un-fitnesses,
  • un fitnesses,
  • incapacitations,
  • ineptnesses,
  • in-aptitude,
  • inaptitudes,
  • un-fitness,
  • un fitness,
  • dis qualifications,
  • in-aptitudes,
  • in aptitude,
  • in capacitations,
  • in-capacitation.
  • inadequacy (noun)
  • inadequateness.
  • incapability (noun)
  • in-capabilities,
  • in capabilities,
  • in-capability,
  • in capability.
  • incompetence (noun)
  • in experiences,
  • in-experiences,
  • in-experience,
  • in competences,
  • in competence,
  • in-competences,
  • in experience,
  • in-competence.
  • ineffectiveness (noun)
  • in effectivenesses,
  • in-effectivenesses,
  • in-effectiveness,
  • in effectiveness.
  • ineffectuality (noun)
  • ineffectiveness,
  • uselessness.
  • inferiority (noun)
  • ineptitude.
  • insolvency (noun)
  • in-solvencies,
  • in solvencies,
  • in-solvency,
  • in solvency.
  • insufficiency (noun)
  • niggardliness,
  • speck,
  • scarceness,
  • stinginess,
  • meagerness,
  • paucity,
  • miserliness,
  • Flyspeck.
  • inutility (noun)
  • impracticality,
  • good-for-nothingness,
  • unsuitability,
  • fruitlessness,
  • futility,
  • Detrimentalness.
  • lack (noun)
  • shortness,
  • retrenchments,
  • shrinking,
  • exiguity,
  • retrenchment,
  • slightness.
  • nonfeasance (noun)
  • non-feasances,
  • non feasance,
  • non feasances.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • lopsidedness,
  • rareness,
  • slave wages,
  • miss,
  • shortfall,
  • incompactness,
  • want,
  • gauntness,
  • inaptitude,
  • shallowness,
  • incompetency,
  • tenuity,
  • in the hole,
  • sparsity,
  • failings,
  • slimness,
  • tenuities,
  • pittance,
  • penury,
  • inutilities,
  • dearth,
  • inferiority,
  • famine,
  • inability,
  • neglect,
  • due bill,
  • imparities,
  • worthlessness,
  • adverse circumstances,
  • Subtilization,
  • defalcation,
  • ineptness,
  • defectiveness,
  • deficit,
  • Insufficience,
  • red ink,
  • in hock,
  • Subtilty,
  • poverty,
  • scantiness,
  • fly in the ointment,
  • infrequency,
  • defalcations,
  • discommodities,
  • minuses,
  • failure,
  • inutility,
  • inefficiencies,
  • exiguousness,
  • powerlessness,
  • errors,
  • Non-payment,
  • slim pickings,
  • default,
  • spareness,
  • minus,
  • incompetence,
  • Discommodity,
  • modicum,
  • sparseness,
  • unsuitableness,
  • uncommonness,
  • flaw,
  • Non-feasance,
  • Imparity,
  • dead horse,
  • scarcity,
  • imperfection,
  • skimpiness,
  • lack,
  • needs,
  • thinness,
  • feebleness,
  • shortage,
  • Incapacitation.
  • pittance (noun)
  • drop in bucket,
  • slave wage,
  • drop the bucket,
  • drop bucket.
  • poverty (noun)
  • penuriousness,
  • pennilessness,
  • Necessitousness,
  • pauperism,
  • abjection,
  • vacancy,
  • impoverishment,
  • under-development,
  • impecuniousness.
  • shortage (noun)
  • shortcoming.
  • shortfall (noun)
  • defectivenesses.
  • thinness (noun)
  • in-compactness,
  • subtilties,
  • in compactness,
  • sparenesses,
  • in compactnesses,
  • slimnesses,
  • gauntnesses,
  • sparsenesses,
  • incompactnesses,
  • subtilizations,
  • in-compactnesses,
  • shallownesses.
  • unsuccess (noun)
  • un successes,
  • un-successes,
  • un-success,
  • un success.
  • unsuccessfulness (noun)
  • un successfulnesses,
  • un-successfulnesses,
  • un-successfulness,
  • un successfulness.
  • want (noun)
  • skimpinesses.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • failing,
  • underside,
  • ineffectuality,
  • damage,
  • inefficacy,
  • scantness,
  • fault,
  • abnormality,
  • Achilles' Heel,
  • ineffectualness.
  •
  • disadvantage,
  • helplessness,
  • underage,
  • demerit,
  • absence.
  •
  • limitation.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • scarce,
  • unbalance,
  • disequilibrium,
  • inadeptness,
  • inefficaciousness,
  • unskillfulness,
  • impotency,
  • scrappiness,
  • too little,
  • poorness,
  • too late,
  • inexactitude,
  • disservice,
  • bug,
  • unfruitfulness,
  • labor in vain,
  • disablement,
  • insubstantial,
  • vulnerable place,
  • incapacity,
  • baseness,
  • littleness,
  • Indexterity,
  • imbalance,
  • overbalance,
  • inexpediency,
  • thoughtlessness,
  • shabbiness,
  • slump,
  • callowness,
  • Arrearage,
  • sketchiness,
  • unaptness,
  • puniness,
  • short supply,
  • uncleverness,
  • patchiness,
  • inaptness,
  • kink,
  • crunch,
  • inappropriateness,
  • erroneousness,
  • unimportance,
  • odds,
  • bare subsistence,
  • crime,
  • triviality,
  • unfitness,
  • imbecility,
  • unsoundness,
  • badness,
  • injustice,
  • disqualification,
  • smallness,
  • inaccuracy,
  • inequity,
  • Indefensibility,
  • Impecuniosity,
  • meagreness,
  • mediocrity,
  • maladjustment,
  • falling short,
  • underdevelopment,
  • lost trouble,
  • inattentiveness,
  • imperfectness,
  • rift,
  • adulteration,
  • Arrestment,
  • blot,
  • Nonfulfillment,
  • hole,
  • faute,
  • Incompletion,
  • Unproficiency,
  • immaturity,
  • inadmissibility,
  • maladroitness,
  • impairment,
  • Unintelligence,
  • Arrear,
  • undersupply,
  • minority,
  • Rustiness,
  • unsatisfactoriness,
  • fewness,
  • vulgarity,
  • undesirability,
  • contrariety,
  • Wardship,
  • impurity,
  • Intolerability,
  • meanness,
  • Lowliness,
  • weak link,
  • Pedestrianism,
  • stint,
  • Peccancy,
  • inefficiency,
  • defection,
  • unproductiveness,
  • pettiness,
  • Dissatisfactoriness,
  • subnormality,
  • short measure,
  • infancy,
  • heterogeneity,
  • crack,
  • nonuniformity,
  • inexactness,
  • Defectibility,
  • Neediness,
  • unacceptability.

Paraphrases for Inadequacy:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    deficiency, insufficiency, Deficiencies.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    deficiency, imperfection, insufficiency, weakness.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    adequacy.

• Reverse Entailment

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

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    absence, defect, deficit, disability, discrepancy, efficiency, gap, helplessness, impotence, improper, inability, inaccuracy, inconsistency, inefficiency, maladjustment, sufficiency, Incapacitation, Underemployment, mechanisms.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    inadequate, insufficient.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    deficient, flaw, inadequate, inappropriateness, incapability, incapacity, incompetence, incompleteness, ineffectiveness, inefficacy, ineptitude, insufficient, mismatch, powerlessness, shortcoming, shortfall, unavailability, unfitness, unsatisfactory, unsuitability, unsuitable.

Hypernym for Inadequacy:

• n.

  • attribute
    meagerness, poorness, scarceness, slenderness, scantiness, deficit, shortfall, leanness, meagreness, exiguity, scantness, scarcity, shortage.

Hyponym for Inadequacy:

• n.

  • attribute
    amount.