508 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ʃˈɔːtkʌmɪŋ], [ ʃˈɔːtkʌmɪŋ], [ ʃ_ˈɔː_t_k_ʌ_m_ɪ_ŋ]

Related words: shortcomings, weaknesses, inadequacies, deficiencies, pitfalls

Similar words for shortcoming:

• other relevant words (adjective)
• attribute (noun)
• chink in one's armor (noun)
• default (noun)
• defect (noun)
• deficiency (noun)
• deficit (noun)
• drawback (noun)
• fault (noun)
• flimsiness (noun)
• frailty (noun)
• handicap (noun)
• imbalance (noun)
• imperfection (noun)
• inability (noun)
• inadequacy (noun)
• incapability (noun)
• incompleteness (noun)
• infirmity (noun)
• insubstantiality (noun)
• lack (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• scantiness (noun)
• shortage (noun)
• sin (noun)
• unsoundness (noun)
• weakness (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

How to use "shortcoming" in context?

Paraphrases for shortcoming

Homophones for shortcoming

Hyponyms for shortcoming

Synonyms for Shortcoming:

• adj.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • failing.

• n.

  •
  • difficulty,
  • burden,
  • problem,
  • issue,
  • trouble,
  • nuisance,
  • trials and tribulations,
  • hardship,
  • baggage,
  • disturbance.
  •
  • poverty,
  • excess.
  •
  • better,
  • beautiful,
  • bug,
  • help.
  • attribute (noun)
  • shortcoming.
  • chink in one's armor (noun)
  • under belly,
  • vulnerable places,
  • under-belly,
  • chink in one armor,
  • chink ones armor,
  • chink in ones armor,
  • weak links,
  • chink armor,
  • chink one's armor,
  • under-bellies,
  • chink-armor,
  • chink one armor,
  • weak sides,
  • under bellies.
  • default (noun)
  • dis regard,
  • over-looking,
  • de faults,
  • dis-regards,
  • over-sight,
  • in sufficiency,
  • dis regards,
  • dis-regard,
  • over looking,
  • non payment,
  • over sights,
  • non-payments,
  • non payments,
  • over-sights,
  • overlookings,
  • in sufficiencies,
  • over sight,
  • de fault,
  • in-sufficiencies,
  • de-fault,
  • de-faults,
  • in-sufficiency.
  • defect (noun)
  • dis-coloration,
  • marrings,
  • mis-take,
  • dis-colorations,
  • mis takes,
  • mis take,
  • dis coloration,
  • dis colorations,
  • mis-takes,
  • in-jury,
  • rough spots,
  • in jury,
  • in juries.
  • deficiency (noun)
  • de merits,
  • de-merit,
  • de-merits,
  • de merit,
  • insufficiences,
  • inability hack it.
  • deficit (noun)
  • due bills,
  • in hocks,
  • in hole,
  • dead horses,
  • red inks,
  • in red.
  • drawback (noun)
  • fly the ointment,
  • in conveniences,
  • in-convenience,
  • fly ointment,
  • fly in ointment,
  • in-conveniences.
  • fault (noun)
  • lapse.
  • flimsiness (noun)
  • shoddinesses.
  • frailty (noun)
  • daintinesses,
  • suscepts,
  • peccabilities.
  • handicap (noun)
  • re striction,
  • re strictions,
  • psychological baggages,
  • re-strictions,
  • re-striction.
  • imbalance (noun)
  • lopsidedness.
  • imperfection (noun)
  • incompleteness.
  • inability (noun)
  • in-effectualness,
  • incapacitations,
  • in-effectiveness,
  • in competence,
  • in-capacitation,
  • in-efficacy,
  • in aptitude,
  • dis-qualification,
  • in efficacies,
  • in aptitudes,
  • in utilities,
  • in-capacitations,
  • un fitness,
  • in efficiencies,
  • un-fitness,
  • in-effectivenesses,
  • in-capacity,
  • un-fitnesses,
  • ineptnesses,
  • in-competence,
  • in-effectualnesses,
  • in-efficiencies,
  • in effectivenesses,
  • in-competences,
  • in efficacy,
  • in efficiency,
  • in-utilities,
  • in-aptitudes,
  • in-utility,
  • in capacity,
  • in effectualnesses,
  • in utility,
  • in effectiveness,
  • in effectualness,
  • dis-qualifications,
  • in competences,
  • in-efficacies,
  • inaptitudes,
  • in-aptitude,
  • un fitnesses,
  • dis qualifications,
  • in capacities,
  • dis qualification,
  • in capacitations,
  • in-capacities,
  • in capacitation,
  • in-efficiency.
  • inadequacy (noun)
  • in adequacy,
  • in adequacies,
  • in aptnesses,
  • in adequatenesses,
  • in-adequacy,
  • in adequateness,
  • inaptnesses,
  • un-suitablenesses,
  • in-adequatenesses,
  • in-adequateness,
  • skimpinesses,
  • in-aptness,
  • un suitableness,
  • inadequatenesses,
  • in aptness,
  • defectivenesses,
  • un-suitableness,
  • in-adequacies,
  • faultinesses,
  • in-aptnesses,
  • un suitablenesses.
  • incapability (noun)
  • in-capabilities,
  • in capability,
  • in-capability,
  • in capabilities.
  • incompleteness (noun)
  • gap,
  • need,
  • curtailment,
  • segmental,
  • fragmentation,
  • sectional,
  • omission,
  • hiatus,
  • part,
  • fraction,
  • discontinuity.
  • infirmity (noun)
  • ailings,
  • un-healthiness,
  • un healthiness,
  • dis ease,
  • dis-order,
  • dis-orders,
  • in dispositions,
  • un wellnesses,
  • un-healths,
  • un-wellness,
  • dis-eases,
  • un wellness,
  • flus,
  • un health,
  • dis orders,
  • dis order,
  • un-healthinesses,
  • in disposition,
  • de-cays,
  • un healthinesses,
  • un-wellnesses,
  • un healths,
  • unhealthinesses,
  • unhealths,
  • dis-ease,
  • ill healths,
  • de-cay,
  • de cay,
  • diseasednesses,
  • unwellnesses,
  • sicklinesses,
  • in-disposition,
  • de cays,
  • dis eases,
  • un-health,
  • in-dispositions.
  • insubstantiality (noun)
  • in-substantialities,
  • in substantialities,
  • in-substantiality,
  • in substantiality.
  • lack (noun)
  • retrenchment,
  • shortness,
  • shrinking,
  • exiguity,
  • retrenchments,
  • slightness.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • inadequacy,
  • deficit,
  • failings,
  • default,
  • inability to hack it,
  • shortfall,
  • weak side,
  • imperfection,
  • unwellness,
  • Gluttonies,
  • evil-doing,
  • suscept,
  • handicap,
  • incompetency,
  • inability,
  • hangup,
  • Sickliness,
  • foible,
  • inaptitude,
  • unrighteousness,
  • insubstantiality,
  • skimpiness,
  • gluttony,
  • Torts,
  • inaptness,
  • incapability,
  • Incapacitation,
  • daintiness,
  • inefficiencies,
  • unsoundness,
  • imbalance,
  • knot,
  • sinfulness,
  • shoddiness,
  • wrongness,
  • frailty,
  • tort,
  • defalcations,
  • sin,
  • tightness,
  • ungodliness,
  • scantiness,
  • fly in the ointment,
  • chink in one's armor,
  • inutility,
  • Non-payment,
  • Peccability,
  • errors,
  • Unhealth,
  • leanness,
  • Insufficience,
  • chink in armor,
  • fault,
  • puniness,
  • faultiness,
  • unsuitableness,
  • weak link,
  • in the hole,
  • neglect,
  • underbellies,
  • lack,
  • unhealthiness,
  • inadequateness,
  • flaw,
  • powerlessness,
  • millstone,
  • due bill,
  • encumbrance,
  • dead horse,
  • miss,
  • weakness,
  • infirmity,
  • inefficacy,
  • Veniality,
  • weakliness,
  • flu,
  • evil doing,
  • vulnerable place,
  • in hock,
  • scar,
  • ineptness,
  • speck,
  • red ink,
  • psychological baggage,
  • Diseasedness,
  • defectiveness,
  • defalcation,
  • deficiency,
  • drawback,
  • inutilities,
  • defect,
  • rough spot,
  • underbelly,
  • ill health.
  • scantiness (noun)
  • tightnesses,
  • Leannesses.
  • shortage (noun)
  • arrears,
  • shortage,
  • insufficiency.
  • sin (noun)
  • evil doings,
  • un-godliness,
  • un-righteousnesses,
  • mis deed,
  • un-righteousness,
  • venialities,
  • un righteousness,
  • mis deeds,
  • mis-deed,
  • dis obediences,
  • wrongnesses,
  • dis obedience,
  • dis-obedience,
  • un godlinesses,
  • un godliness,
  • ungodlinesses,
  • un righteousnesses,
  • mis-deeds,
  • sinfulnesses,
  • evil-doings,
  • unrighteousnesses,
  • un-godlinesses,
  • dis-obediences.
  • unsoundness (noun)
  • un-soundness,
  • un soundness,
  • un-soundnesses,
  • un soundnesses.
  • weakness (noun)
  • inconstancy,
  • inconstancies,
  • faintness,
  • vitiation,
  • sore point,
  • invalidity,
  • invalidities.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • criminality.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Achilles' Heel,
  • scarceness,
  • abnormality,
  • scantness,
  • weak point,
  • damage,
  • underside.
  •
  • paucity,
  • underage,
  • scarcity.
  •
  • limitation.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • liability,
  • spot,
  • bankruptcy,
  • debility,
  • blot,
  • scarce,
  • superiority,
  • sketchiness,
  • violation,
  • leeway,
  • slip,
  • difference,
  • weak spot,
  • defection,
  • decline,
  • immaturity,
  • half blood,
  • Nonfulfillment,
  • vice,
  • Make-weight,
  • error,
  • unsubstantiality,
  • inequity,
  • break,
  • inequality,
  • Inequation,
  • destitution,
  • goof,
  • want,
  • partiality,
  • labor in vain,
  • odds,
  • inexactness,
  • slip-up,
  • Imparity,
  • minimum,
  • drawn battle,
  • gaffe,
  • quirk,
  • crevice,
  • hang-up,
  • blemish,
  • botch,
  • Arrearage,
  • inferiority,
  • dearth,
  • catch,
  • faute,
  • bar sinister,
  • faux pas,
  • famine,
  • snag,
  • weight,
  • fluff,
  • disproportion,
  • inexactitude,
  • stint,
  • Noncompletion,
  • infraction,
  • fallibility,
  • short measure,
  • preoccupation,
  • glitch,
  • Wantage,
  • crack,
  • loophole,
  • disadvantage,
  • disequilibrium,
  • taint,
  • disparity,
  • privation,
  • starvation,
  • rift,
  • adulteration,
  • negligence,
  • nonuniformity,
  • incompetence,
  • fallacy,
  • asymmetry,
  • demerit,
  • falling short,
  • Subordinacy,
  • trespass,
  • bare subsistence,
  • bias,
  • delinquency,
  • Nonpreparation,
  • flimsiness,
  • indiscretion,
  • half measures,
  • failure,
  • drought,
  • blunder,
  • impairment,
  • discrepancy,
  • irregularity,
  • patchiness,
  • inaccuracy,
  • slump,
  • transgression,
  • smallness,
  • Defectibility,
  • mediocrity,
  • peccadillo,
  • injustice,
  • lapsus,
  • short,
  • impoverishment,
  • impurity,
  • crotchet,
  • beggary,
  • stumble,
  • misdeed,
  • unbalance,
  • dereliction,
  • mistake,
  • kink,
  • contrariety,
  • twist,
  • hole,
  • inconsistency,
  • overbalance,
  • heterogeneity,
  • deprivation,
  • attainder,
  • erroneousness,
  • set back,
  • minority,
  • impotence,
  • peculiarity,
  • eccentricity,
  • misstep,
  • blind spot,
  • idiosyncrasy,
  • unevenness,
  • oversight,
  • absence.

How to use "Shortcoming" in context?

Paraphrases for Shortcoming:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    defect, deficiency, gap, weakness.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    abnormality, absence, anomaly, breach, constraint, default, disability, discrepancy, failing, impediment, impossibility, impotence, incompleteness, lack, lapse, limitation, malfunction, misconduct, obstacle, oversight, paucity, powerlessness, restriction, situation, vacuum, void.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    failing, faltering, lacking, wanting, Adopting.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    dearth, deficit, disadvantage, downside, drawback, error, failure, fault, flaw, glitch, handicap, impairment, inadequacy, inconvenience, insufficiency, lacuna, loophole, mistake, omission, problem, scarcity, shortage, shortfall, unavailability, Lacunae.

Homophones for Shortcoming:

• scratchiness, short-change, scratching.

Hyponym for Shortcoming:

• n.

  • attribute
    disadvantage.