Deficient is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEFICIENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a person who is mentally handicapped
ADJECTIVE:
• lacking
• not having enough of a specified quality or ingredient
• insufficient or inadequate
• having mental disabilities.
• lacking some essential thing or quality
• Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment.
• inadequate in amount or degree
• of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement
• falling short of some prescribed norm
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• lacking in some necessary quality or element

Words related to DEFICIENT

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Words that contain DEFICIENT

deficients16 deficiently20 deficientness19 deficientnesses21 immunodeficient25

How to use DEFICIENT in a sentence

• In the latest type of submarine the United States is deficient.
• More than half of it, including the entire western half, is deficient in rainfall and can never be the home of a dense white population.
• But opportunity and temptation supplied that, which might have been deficient on the side of nature.
• His pictures were deficient in the ideal, but were remarkable for expression and elegant drawing.
• Flint, like many southern women, was totally deficient in energy.
• In matters of a less important character, he was either deficient in sensibility altogether, or it affected him so slightly as not to be perceptible.
• In many instances there is sufficient for the needs of most plants, but where lime is deficient in quantity it must be added before healthy crops can be raised.
• Originally the flowers were small, imperfect in form, and deficient in range of colour.
• His education having been much neglected in his youth, he is deficient in theoretical learning.
• But if he was deficient in proof of his assertions, he had abundance of audacity.
• The city of Bristol, although essentially a manufacturing and commercial centre, is not deficient in names which have enjoyed a widespread literary reputation.
• At the same time he could be deficient where proportion, and even where all the laws of art, are concerned.
• Much may be learnt from them in departments in which our common educational system is very deficient.
• Do what he would, Charlton could not conceal from himself that in sympathy Miss Minorkey was greatly deficient.
• Humor is not the most lofty of qualities, but it is one of the most essential, and it is generally assumed that Washington was very deficient in humor.
• Somerset is peculiarly deficient in large rivers, for the Avon can hardly be included amongst its belongings, since it is the dividing line between the county and Gloucestershire.
• The expression of his indignation was outrageous in manner, and deficient in real power.
• Like the spokes of a wheel, no one is last, like the days they are born on and on, not deficient in might.
• The portion of your brain through which your genius should find speech is either temporarily paralyzed or else deficient in composition.
• They were examined on their knowledge of the subject, found deficient, rebuked, and dismissed, but after a little while they returned to the charge, and the minister gave in.
• But, great as the work is, if our will be ready, our powers are not deficient.
• However deficient his knowledge of the art, his passion for music was extraordinary.
• The outer part of the grain of cereals is the richest in mineral constituents, white flour and rice are deficient.
• In this respect, our information, so far as it comes to us through ordinary channels, is lamentably deficient.
• You are not widely deficient, Cubbin, I think, in this particular.

Similar words containing FICI without suffix ent and without prefix de

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