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adjective
- 1. not having enough of a specified quality or ingredient: "this diet is deficient in vitamin B"
- 2. having an intellectual disability. dated, offensive
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adjective. us / dɪˈfɪʃ·ənt / Add to word list. lacking or not good enough: A diet that is deficient in protein is harmful to children.
The meaning of DEFICIENT is lacking in some necessary quality or element. How to use deficient in a sentence.
Deficient means not enough or not adequate. Maybe you were deficient in caffeine that day. Maybe you were lacking in study time. But no doubt about it: you came up with a deficient number of correct answers on the physics test.
Deficient definition: lacking some element or characteristic; defective. See examples of DEFICIENT used in a sentence.
the state of not having, or not having enough, of something that is needed: Pregnant women often suffer from iron deficiency. deficiency inThe blood tests revealed a deficiency in certain key minerals and vitamins. Synonym. lack of something. the state of not being good enough, or a fault that makes something not good enough:
If someone or something is deficient in a particular thing, they do not have the full amount of it that they need in order to function normally or work properly.
Synonyms for DEFICIENT: incomplete, partial, flawed, half, unfinished, fragmentary, damaged, fragmental; Antonyms of DEFICIENT: complete, perfect, whole, integral, entire, full, intact, unimpaired.
1. lacking some essential; incomplete; defective. 2. inadequate in quantity or supply; insufficient. [C16: from Latin dēficiēns lacking, from dēficere to fall short; see defect] deˈficiently adv.
The meaning of DEFICIENCY is the quality or state of being defective or of lacking some necessary quality or element : the quality or state of being deficient : inadequacy. How to use deficiency in a sentence.
noun. the state or quality of being deficient. a lack or insufficiency; shortage. another word for deficit. biology the absence of a gene or a region of a chromosome normally present.
