What is another word for inadequate?

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suboptimal, so-so, Overrated, unimpressive, bearable, cowboy, dearth, substandard, undistinguished, measly, makeshift, such as it is, scantily, unspectacular, fallible, livable, unsatisfying, mediocre, questionable, much, derisory, deficit, insufficiency, tolerable, limited, overstretched, indifferent, inadequacy, lame, deprivation, under, iffy, bare, unsatisfied, below, helpless, crack-up, ineffectual, jar, fair, off, tight, beggarly, exhaustible, slight, scant, inadequate, unequal, junky, cruddy, unsound, poor, invalid, unpleasant, punk, godawful, poorer, ill-suited, baneful, inadvisable, most inferior, arrant, wretched, detrimental, the pits, bottom out, unsatisfactory, irremediable, grody, unfavorable, not good, wrong, displeasing, inferior, sad, vile, black, poverty stricken, povertystricken, spineless, on the bum, un sounder, un soundest, most blemished, sub-normal, un finished, sickest, wanting, un-sound, un-healthier, out order, more seconds, un healthiest, un healthier, more subnormal, more blemished, more flawed, un-soundest, most flawed, most seconds, most subnormal, un healthy, un-sounder, sub normal, on bum, un-healthy, subnormal, un-healthiest, un sound, un-finished, glitch, spare, impotent, lemon, incomplete, junk, miserly, found wanting, stunted, short, scanty, inappreciable, deficient, unproductive, minus, not enough, bush-league, scarce, inconsiderable, depleted, dry, insubstantial, skimpy, inapt, niggardly, imperfect, sterile, Stinted, parsimonious, meager, incapable, barren, lousy, too little, insufficient, unfulfilling, falling short, no good, not satisfying, not up to par, tiny, Unsufficient, Unthriving, fainter, unprosperous, more botched, in exact, most lemon, more malfunctioning, in-accurate, most botched, more marred, more imprecise, un reliable, most warped, malformed, in accurate, un retentive, inexact, most marred, de based, un-retentive, un-reliable, most imprecise, in-valid, more lemon, more warped, in-exact, most unretentive, de-based, in valid, more unretentive, most malfunctioning, warped, inefficient, out of gas, wimpy, in firm, fragile, Strengthless, enervated, sapless, more chiffon, trans-parent, shallower, most controvertible, un-believable, shallow, trifling, more cut rate, most chiffon, more cutrate, more ungrounded, rickety, un substantial, cutrate, more cut-rate, more papery, un-substantial, most unpersuasive, most cut-rate, un believable, more unpersuasive, illogical, most cutrate, trivial, un-grounded, more rinkydink, house cards, most ungrounded, un-persuasive, in-conceivable, gossamer, most rinkydink, un grounded, in credible, un persuasive, most cut rate, trans parent, un reasonable, more controvertible, un-reasonable, most papery, in-credible, in conceivable, spoiled, second-rate, blemished, tainted, blotched, powerless, forceless, disabled, Infecund, in-experienced, in capable, un-equipped, in proficient, in-capable, in expert, un skillful, not to, un cool, more inproficient, more butterfingers, un-cool, most unequipped, un suited, un-suited, most inproficient, most uncool, in-proficient, in-expert, more unequipped, more uncool, un-skillful, un equipped, in eligible, in experienced, dis qualified, in-eligible, dis-qualified, more disqualified, most butterfingers, most disqualified, losing, in-commensurate, un-fairer, most incommensurable, un fairest, more incommensurable, un fair, incommensurable, un-equal, in commensurate, un-fair, in-commensurable, un equal, in commensurable, un-fairest, un fairer, most unadapted, more amateur, un-trained, more unproficient, most amateur, more unfitted, un-handy, un-fitted, un-handier, un fitted, out lunch, un-proficient, un-adapted, un-initiated, unhandiest, un proficient, un trained, most unproficient, most unfitted, un handiest, un handier, unhandier, un-handiest, more floundering, more unadapted, in competent, most floundering, in-competent, un adapted, un handy, un initiated, bushleague, unconsummated, half done, Unaccomplished, half-done, Unexecuted, under construction, fragmentary, Parter, in consequential, in-consequential, entry level, two bit, more entry level, most shoestring, entrylevel, most entry level, un considered, runtest, in considerable, un-important, more shoestring, more entry-level, in appreciable, un important, in significant, in-considerable, in-appreciable, in-consequent, twobit, most entry-level, in consequent, in-significant, more entrylevel, most entrylevel, un-considered, runter, more slack-spined, ineffective, more slack spined, most slack spined, more emasculate, slack-spined, most slack-spined, slackspined, most slackspined, in-effective, more slackspined, most emasculate, un-available, slack spined, in effective, un available, in operative, more ineffective, invertebrate, in-vertebrate, most defeasible, more neutralized, anti climactic, null void, in-operative, in vertebrate, un profitable, most invertebrate, anti-climactic, de-feasible, un-profitable, de feasible, most anticlimactic, more anticlimactic, null and void, in nocuous, in-nocuous, more defeasible, most neutralized, more invertebrate, in effectual, in-effectual, in efficacious, in-efficacious, stingy, Flyspeck, coming up short, Sans, cant cut it, sansest, not making it, coming short, can't cut it, most needing, deprived of, not hacking it, most without, sanser, more needing, more without, lamest, more faltering, more unpleasing, most faltering, un-pleasing, most unpleasing, un pleasing, in-fertile, stilt, more sylphlike, stiltest, more shadow, most beanpole, in fertile, scraggier, gangling, more beanpole, stickest, stilter, most shadow, most sylphlike, wee, lightest, not many, not much, not rich, hardly any, hardly enough, marked down, lower, uncostly, doughiest, more waxlike, waxlike, washedout, most whitish, pasty, most bleached, most waxlike, more whitish, more bleached, washed-out, more commiserable, most commiserable, pitiable, tearful, scurvy, punker, un luckiest, un luckier, un pleasant, most bruised, un-pleasant, bummest, punkest, more bruised, un-happy, un happier, un happy, un-lucky, un lucky, dis-agreeable, un fortunate, dis eased, dis-eased, dis agreeable, un happiest, un-luckier, un-fortunate, ruthful, secondbest, second rate, more second-best, second-class, most second-best, secondclass, most secondrate, secondrate, most second best, more secondbest, most secondbest, more second best, shorthanded, shortest, low on, uncritical, Depthless, mini, minor-league, runty, under-sized, pocket-sized, shrimp, bitty, small-scale, one-horse, pint-sized, Toyer, small-fry, shrimper, small fry, Despisable, scummy, scummier, scrimpier, un commoner, un common, un-commoner, un commonest, scrimpiest, most dispersed, un-common, more dispersed, few far between, more weak-kneed, lily livered, weakwilled, more faint-hearted, more pithless, more faint hearted, weak kneed, most yellow-bellied, most yellowbellied, most amoebalike, more yellow-bellied, weakkneed, most yellow bellied, weak willed, yellowbellied, most weak-kneed, most weakkneed, more yellow bellied, more weakkneed, most faint-hearted, most faint hearted, yellow bellied, sub missive, lilylivered, more amoebalike, weak-willed, more weak kneed, faint hearted, more yellowbellied, most pithless, most weak kneed, weak-kneed, SUBPAR., junker, below standard, un tenable, most stretched, more stretched, un-tenable, most diluted, cant hack it, can't make grade, Impuissant, more sidelined, un-abler, out commission, more hogtied, more hog tied, no can do, more impuissant, most hogtied, most sidelined, un abler, cant make grade, un-ablest, most hog tied, more hog-tied, most hog-tied, cant make the grade, un ablest, most impuissant, untenable, unsuitable, inadmissible, unacceptable, inappropriate, intolerable, more blundering, most ill equipped, most illequipped, out place, most ill-equipped, most ill adapted, more ill adapted, unpracticed, illsuited, in expedient, in-compatible, mis taken, in-congruous, more illadapted, un apter, heavyhanded, unmeetest, more ill-equipped, more unpromising, un meeter, un-promising, most butter fingered, ill suited, out shape, un-apter, un-meeter, un congenial, un-congenial, in-expedient, un prepared, most butter-fingered, more ill-adapted, in applicable, butter fingered, unmeeter, more illequipped, un meet, un likeliest, in appropriate, out element, un-likely, in-appropriate, in-harmonious, most butterfingered, in felicitous, un likely, in-applicable, un meetest, in compatible, more butterfingered, most illadapted, most blundering, un likelier, un-prepared, most ill-adapted, most unpromising, heavy handed, illadapted, un-likelier, un promising, more butter fingered, un-meetest, un-fit, ill equipped, un-aptest, un-becoming, more ill equipped, in-felicitous, un practiced, in harmonious, un becoming, ill adapted, more butter-fingered, Unmeet, un aptest, out of element, in congruous, un fit, un-practiced, un-meet, illequipped, un-ethical, un professional, most nonexpert, more nonexpert, non-expert, un-fitting, un fitting, un-professional, non expert, most unfitting, un ethical, more unfitting, un qualified, bushest, un-qualified, un schooled, un-educated, un talented, un-talented, un-schooled, un skilled, un educated, un-skilled, most untalented, more untalented, in-apposite, un seemliest, in-consistent, dis-sonant, in consistent, un seasonable, in admissible, un-seemliest, un-befitting, in apter, dis sonant, out character, un suitable, un-seasonable, un-due, more clashing, interfering, more inapposite, in apposite, in-apter, out keeping, un seemly, most clashing, dis-proportionate, dis proportionate, most inapposite, uncalledfor, un-duer, un-matched, un seemlier, un duest, un due, in-admissible, un befitting, un-seemlier, un-suitable, un-duest, unskilled, impractical, unserviceable, futile, unusable, nonfunctional, good-for-nothing, unworkable, useless, fruitless, weakest, most grieving, most anguished, more agonized, heartsick, more racked, most racked, most agonized, most tortured, more grieving, more anguished, more tortured, Racked, no-good, inexpert, amateur, someone couldn't do something if they tried, awful, understaffed, undermanned, short-handed, unequal to, short-staffed, inept, scrubby, suboptimal

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