Definition for Inadequateness:

• Quality of being unequal to the purpose; incompleteness; defectiveness.

Synonyms for Inadequateness:

• n.

  •attribute (noun)
  • inadequateness.
  •inadequacy (noun)
  • incompetence,
  • meagerness,
  • lack,
  • unfitness,
  • drawback,
  • ineptitude,
  • inefficiency,
  • paucity,
  • deficit,
  • failing,
  • ineffectiveness,
  • deficiency,
  • poverty,
  • ineffectualness,
  • insufficiency,
  • shortcoming,
  • underage,
  • dearth,
  • blemish,
  • incapacity,
  • weakness,
  • imperfection,
  • flaw.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • lacuna,
  • impairment,
  • defect,
  • ineligibility,
  • inadequacies,
  • immaturity,
  • impotence,
  • pinch,
  • unsatisfactoriness,
  • crunch,
  • mediocrity,
  • inaccuracy,
  • short supply,
  • shortage,
  • inability,
  • Nonfulfillment,
  • scarcity,
  • inaptitude,
  • bare subsistence,
  • drought,
  • famine,
  • need,
  • want,
  • stint,
  • impurity,
  • smallness,
  • unsuitability,
  • failure,
  • inferiority,
  • undersupply,
  • unacceptability,
  • scarceness,
  • unevenness.

Antonyms for Inadequateness:

• n.

  • attribute
    adequacy.
  • inadequacy
    excess, abundance, perfection, extra, strong point, sufficiency, ability, strength, plenty, advantage, enough.
  • Other antonyms:
    opulence, amplitude, oversupply, overabundance, surplus, wealth, adequateness, surfeit, plenitude, bountifulness, copiousness.

Inadequateness Sentence Examples:

• In " much fear and trembling," because of its inadequateness, but with earnest and unceasing prayer to Him who has been pleased before to - day to " choose the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty" - with the prayer that He would graciously do so again, I send this little messenger forth on its mission, trusting that the reading of it may be as great a blessing to every reader as the writing of it has been to the writer.

• I deem it my duty further to observe that much of the imperfections in the returns of the last and perhaps of preceding enumerations proceeded from the inadequateness of the compensations allowed to the marshals and their assistants in taking them.

Hypernym for Inadequateness:

• n.

  • attribute
    jejunity, jejuneness.

Hyponym for Inadequateness:

• n.

  • attribute
    unsatisfactoriness.