deficiency
81deficiency — noun (plural cies) Date: 1603 1. the quality or state of being deficient ; inadequacy 2. an amount that is lacking or inadequate ; shortage: as a. a shortage of substances necessary to health …
82deficiency — n., pl. cies [L. deficiens, wanting] Structural change resulting in the loss of a terminal part of a chromosome …
83deficiency — noun a) Inadequacy or incompleteness. b) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health. Ant: excess …
84deficiency — An insufficient quantity of some substance (as in dietary d. or hemoglobin d. in marrow aplasia); organization (as in mental d.); activity (as in enzyme d. or reduced oxygen carrying capacity of the blood), etc., of which the amount present is of …
85deficiency — Synonyms and related words: absence, adulteration, arrearage, arrestment, baseness, beggary, blemish, break, bug, callowness, catch, crack, dearth, defalcation, default, defect, defectibility, defection, defectiveness, deficit, demerit,… …
86deficiency — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The state of being lacking] Syn. scarcity, insufficiency, paucity; see lack 1 . 2. [A lack] Syn. want, need, loss; see lack 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. imperfection, lack, shortcoming, insufficiency, inadequacy,… …
87deficiency — de·fi·cien·cy || dɪ fɪʃnsɪ n. lack, shortage; defect …
88deficiency — noun (plural deficiencies) a lack or shortage. ↘a failing or shortcoming …
89deficiency — n. 1. Want, lack, defectiveness, insufficiency, scantiness, shortness, meagreness, dearth, scarcity, shortage, deficit. 2. Failing, failure, frailty, infirmity, imperfection, foible, fault, error, weakness, weak side, blind side …
90deficiency — n 1. lack, want, absence, default, dearth, paucity, destitution; scarcity, insufficiency, short supply; scantiness, meagerness, inadequacy, incompleteness. 2. failing, defect, frailty, flaw. See defect(def.1). 3. shortage, shortfall. See deficit …
