Synonyms for Insufficient:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • insufficient.
  •defective (adjective)
  • subnormal,
  • damaged,
  • lacking,
  • injured,
  • on the bum,
  • unsound,
  • out of order,
  • unhealthy,
  • amiss,
  • blemished,
  • impaired,
  • seconds,
  • abnormal,
  • sick.
  •deficient (adjective)
  • found wanting,
  • marred,
  • second fiddle,
  • weak,
  • inferior,
  • not make it,
  • bad,
  • second string,
  • imperfect,
  • third string,
  • exiguous,
  • not cut out for,
  • not enough,
  • inadequate,
  • unequal,
  • wanting,
  • not up to scratch,
  • unassembled,
  • rarest,
  • outta gas.
  •disappointing (adjective)
  • falling short,
  • unfulfilling.
  •dissatisfactory (adjective)
  • junky,
  • not satisfying,
  • lame,
  • unsatisfying,
  • not up to par,
  • rotten,
  • no good,
  • unsuitable,
  • distressing,
  • unacceptable,
  • mediocre,
  • offensive,
  • unworthy,
  • useless,
  • displeasing.
  •failing (adjective)
  • defeated,
  • vain,
  • fainter,
  • declining,
  • faint,
  • unsuccessful,
  • Unsufficient,
  • Unthriving,
  • unprosperous,
  • unavailing.
  •faulty (adjective)
  • broken,
  • botched,
  • frail,
  • fallible,
  • leaky,
  • warped,
  • maimed,
  • inexact,
  • fallacious,
  • wrong,
  • adulterated,
  • erroneous,
  • false,
  • tainted,
  • unreliable,
  • debased,
  • below par,
  • malformed,
  • unfit,
  • distorted,
  • cracked,
  • awry,
  • lemon,
  • rank,
  • invalid,
  • inaccurate,
  • blamable.
  •feeble (adjective)
  • dopey,
  • decrepit,
  • languid,
  • Strengthless,
  • insubstantial,
  • gentle,
  • flabby,
  • indecisive,
  • infirm,
  • tame,
  • slight,
  • helpless,
  • aged,
  • inefficient,
  • flat,
  • debilitated,
  • ailing,
  • exhausted,
  • wimpy,
  • woozy,
  • paltry,
  • out of gas,
  • emasculated,
  • ineffectual,
  • enfeebled,
  • enervated,
  • weakened,
  • etiolated,
  • doddering,
  • vitiated,
  • impotent,
  • puny,
  • weakly,
  • unconvincing,
  • sickly,
  • in firm,
  • effete,
  • fragile,
  • low,
  • powerless,
  • delicate,
  • sapless.
  •few (adjective)
  • minimal,
  • widely spaced,
  • seldom,
  • scarcely any,
  • occasional,
  • negligible,
  • not many,
  • few and far between,
  • scattered,
  • middling,
  • spotty,
  • piddling,
  • slender,
  • Unfrequent,
  • lean,
  • petty,
  • scattering,
  • stingy,
  • trifling,
  • semioccasional,
  • straggling,
  • minority,
  • sporadic,
  • sparse,
  • miserly,
  • minor,
  • uncommon,
  • imperceptible,
  • niggardly,
  • minute,
  • some,
  • slim,
  • minimum,
  • few,
  • inconsiderable,
  • not too many,
  • less,
  • scarce.
  •futile (adjective)
  • idle,
  • hollow,
  • sterile,
  • valueless,
  • abortive,
  • barren,
  • delusive,
  • unprofitable,
  • fruitless,
  • empty,
  • unimportant,
  • ineffective,
  • unproductive,
  • bootless,
  • unneeded,
  • forlorn,
  • trivial,
  • unreal,
  • nugatory,
  • worthless,
  • profitless,
  • impracticable,
  • otiose,
  • impractical,
  • unsubstantial.
  •incapable (adjective)
  • unsuited,
  • losing,
  • naive,
  • unskillful,
  • disqualified,
  • inexpert,
  • unable,
  • unskilled,
  • butterfingers,
  • inept,
  • inexperienced,
  • ineligible.
  •incompetent (adjective)
  • more unadapted,
  • un-adapted,
  • most unfitted,
  • un handiest,
  • more unproficient,
  • un adapted,
  • un fitted,
  • un-handiest,
  • in competent,
  • un-trained,
  • in-competent,
  • un handy,
  • most amateur,
  • un trained,
  • out lunch,
  • most unadapted,
  • more floundering,
  • bushleague,
  • more unfitted,
  • unhandiest,
  • un proficient,
  • un handier,
  • un-fitted,
  • most floundering,
  • unhandier,
  • un-proficient,
  • most unproficient,
  • un initiated,
  • un-handier,
  • more amateur,
  • un-handy,
  • un-initiated.
  •incomplete (adjective)
  • short,
  • discontinuous,
  • fragmentary,
  • half done,
  • Unexecuted,
  • embryonic,
  • unattained,
  • half-done,
  • Parter,
  • patchy,
  • unfinished,
  • immature,
  • under construction,
  • Curtailed,
  • segmental,
  • unfulfilled,
  • incomplete,
  • partial,
  • sectional,
  • unsatisfactory,
  • undone,
  • fractional,
  • unconsummated,
  • Unaccomplished,
  • missing,
  • unachieved.
  •inconsequential (adjective)
  • entry level,
  • in consequential,
  • in-consequential,
  • two bit.
  •inconsequential/inconsiderable (adjective)
  • entrylevel,
  • more entrylevel,
  • un considered,
  • in significant,
  • in-consequent,
  • most entry-level,
  • in-significant,
  • most entry level,
  • more entry-level,
  • in considerable,
  • more entry level,
  • in-considerable,
  • un-considered,
  • more shoestring,
  • twobit,
  • most shoestring,
  • in consequent,
  • in appreciable,
  • most entrylevel,
  • runter,
  • in-appreciable,
  • runtest.
  •ineffectual (adjective)
  • in-effectual,
  • in effectual.
  •insufficient (adjective)
  • infrequent,
  • bereft,
  • incapable,
  • incommensurate,
  • unqualified,
  • out of,
  • short of,
  • devoid,
  • unample,
  • destitute,
  • rare,
  • drained,
  • dry,
  • Flyspeck,
  • meager,
  • minus.
  •lame (adjective)
  • more unpersuasive,
  • more faltering,
  • un-persuasive,
  • more unpleasing,
  • most faltering,
  • un-pleasing,
  • most unpersuasive,
  • most unpleasing,
  • un pleasing,
  • lamest,
  • un persuasive.
  •light (adjective)
  • wee,
  • not much,
  • hardly any,
  • lightest,
  • hardly enough,
  • not rich,
  • tiny.
  •little (adjective)
  • least,
  • Toyer,
  • under-sized,
  • junior,
  • mini,
  • smallish,
  • not big,
  • not large,
  • snubber,
  • shrimpy.
  •meager (adjective)
  • in fertile,
  • un fruitful,
  • un-fruitful,
  • skimpest,
  • scrimpier,
  • scrimpiest,
  • in-fertile,
  • scrimpest.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • barely sufficient,
  • entry-level,
  • piddly,
  • on a treadmill,
  • incompetent,
  • deficient,
  • no biggie,
  • uncool,
  • unfitted,
  • failing,
  • thin,
  • not equal to,
  • shoestring,
  • light,
  • dissatisfactory,
  • out the window,
  • on treadmill,
  • Unhandy,
  • unpleasing,
  • flawed,
  • futile,
  • in vain,
  • skimpy,
  • unretentive,
  • small,
  • not have it,
  • no dice,
  • no avail,
  • unpersuasive,
  • scrimper,
  • save one's breath,
  • shy,
  • disappointing,
  • Resultless,
  • to no effect,
  • inconsequential,
  • big zero,
  • scanty,
  • malfunctioning,
  • imprecise,
  • scant,
  • unadapted,
  • scrimpy,
  • little,
  • inproficient,
  • small time,
  • to no purpose,
  • unequipped,
  • unproficient,
  • feeble,
  • too little too late,
  • faulty,
  • defective,
  • rinkydink,
  • poor,
  • no purpose,
  • to no avail,
  • not up to,
  • skimper,
  • sketchy,
  • no effect.
  •piddly (adjective)
  • diddlier,
  • more rinkydink,
  • rinky dink,
  • rinky-dink,
  • diddliest,
  • more rinky-dink,
  • most rinky dink,
  • most rinky-dink,
  • most rinkydink,
  • more rinky dink.
  •poor (adjective)
  • SUBPAR.,
  • poorer.
  •short-handed (adjective)
  • shorthanded,
  • needing help,
  • need of help.
  •sketchy (adjective)
  • Depthless,
  • uncritical.
  •slender/slim (adjective)
  • re-mote.
  •small (adjective)
  • pint-sized,
  • runty,
  • shrimp,
  • pocket-sized,
  • shrimper,
  • small-scale,
  • bitty.
  •thin (adjective)
  • trans parent,
  • more weak kneed,
  • more weak-kneed,
  • most stretched,
  • more stretched,
  • un tenable,
  • in conceivable,
  • weak kneed,
  • in-conceivable,
  • weakkneed,
  • in credible,
  • un believable,
  • trans-parent,
  • in-credible,
  • more weakkneed,
  • most diluted,
  • un-believable,
  • most weakkneed,
  • most weak-kneed,
  • un-tenable.
  •unacceptable (adjective)
  • inadmissible,
  • inappropriate,
  • intolerable,
  • untenable.

• n.

  •
  • meagre,
  • pitiful,
  • tight,
  • miserable,
  • not go far,
  • in short/limited supply,
  • derisory.
  •depleted (noun)
  • depleted.
  •insufficient (noun)
  • too little.

• v.

  •Other relevant words: (verb)
  • quantity.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • dearth,
  • measly,
  • scantily,
  • short-handed.
  •
  • deficit,
  • deprivation,
  • limited,
  • inadequacy,
  • overstretched,
  • insufficiency.
  •
  • bare,
  • under,
  • unsatisfied.
  •
  • off.

Paraphrases for Insufficient:

• Equivalence

  • Preposition or subordinating conjunction
    inadequate.
  • Adjective
    scanty, deficient, inadequate.
  • Proper noun, singular
    inadequate.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    deficient, inadequate.
  • Verb, past tense
    inadequate.

• Forward Entailment

  • Adjective
    sufficient.
  • Proper noun, singular
    sufficient.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    insubstantial, ineffective, defective, flawed, substandard, insignificant, underdeveloped, lacking, kefaya, unachieved, faulty, underemployed, unsuitable, Underemployment, necessary, sub-standard, underrepresented, imperfect, undersized, lacks, unable, under-funded, fuller, feeble, proper.
  • Proper noun, singular
    malfunctions, data, submissions, lack, lacks.
  • Noun, plural
    constraints, shortfalls, weaknesses.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    paucity, Underemployment, lack.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    lack.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    exists, fails, lacks.
  • Verb, base form
    lack.

• Other Related

  • Coordinating conjunction
    inadequate.
  • Determiner
    inadequate.
  • Adjective
    inefficient, scant, scarce, little, inappropriate, ample, satisfactory, few, poor, appropriate.
  • Proper noun, singular
    deficient, inadequacy, poor.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    inadequacy, poor, underrepresentation.
  • Verb, past tense
    needed.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    inadequate.
  • Verb, base form
    inadequate.

Antonyms for Insufficient:

• adj.

  • all
    sufficient.
  • defective
    flawless, excellent, unbroken, perfect, faultless.
  • deficient
    excessive, satisfactory, superfluous.
  • failing
    healthy, strong, rebounding, thriving, ok, well.
  • faulty
    accurate, correct, sound, working.
  • feeble
    able, effective, powerful, hardy, solid, hearty.
  • few
    much, many.
  • futile
    fruitful, hopeful, productive, profitable.
  • incapable
    capable, competent, qualified.
  • insufficient
    adequate, ample, enough.
  • Other antonyms:
    bountiful, bounteous, king-size, copious, large, substantial, hefty, super, rich, big, largish, abounding, expanded, jumbo, oversize, liberal, luxuriant, abundant, overflowing, decent, plenteous, tolerable, enlarged, generous, comfortable, teeming, considerable, lavish, sizable.