inadequacy

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noun

1. lack of an adequate quantity or number (Freq. 1)
- the inadequacy of unemployment benefits
• Syn:
insufficiency, deficiency
• Ant:
adequacy, sufficiency (for: insufficiency)
• Derivationally related forms:
deficient (for: deficiency), insufficient (for: insufficiency)
• Hypernyms:
amount
• Hyponyms:
meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness,
scantness, exiguity, deficit, shortage, shortfall, scarcity,
scarceness, slenderness
2. a lack of competence
- pointed out the insufficiencies in my report
- juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents
• Syn:
insufficiency
• Hypernyms:
failing, weakness
3. unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate
• Syn:
inadequateness
• Ant:
adequacy
• Derivationally related forms:
inadequate (for: inadequateness)
• Hypernyms:
unsatisfactoriness

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  inadequateness, insufficiency, deficiency
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  adequacy, adequateness, sufficiency