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inadequacy
noun
1 inadequacy
Lack of an adequate quantity or number:
— The inadequacy of unemployment benefits.
synonyms: deficiency, insufficiency.
Roget 640:
insufficiency;
inadequacy,
inadequateness;
incompetence
etc.
(impotence)
158;
deficiency
etc.
(incompleteness)
53;
imperfection
etc.
651;
shortcoming
etc.
304;
paucity;
stint;
scantiness
etc.
(smallness)
32;
none to spare,
bare subsistence.
scarcity,
dearth;
want,
need,
lack,
poverty,
exigency;
inanition,
starvation,
famine,
drought.
dole,
mite,
pittance;
short allowance,
short commons;
half rations;
banyan day.
emptiness,
poorness
etc.
adj.;
depletion,
vacancy,
flaccidity;
ebb tide;
low water;
a beggarly account of empty boxes"
[Romeo and Juliet];
indigence
etc.
804;
insolvency
etc.
(nonpayment)
808.
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Roget 645:
inutility;
uselessness
etc.
adj.;
inefficacy†,
futility;
ineptitude,
inaptitude;
unsubservience†;
inadequacy
etc.
(insufficiency)
640;
inefficiency,
etc.
(incompetence)
158;
unskillfulness
etc.
699;
disservice;
unfruitfulness
etc.
(unproductiveness)..
169;
labor in vain,
labor lost,
labor of Sisyphus;
lost trouble,
lost labor;
work of Penelope;
sleeveless errand,
wild goose chase,
mere farce.
tautology
etc.
(repetition)
104;
supererogation
etc.
(redundancy)
641.
vanitas vanitatum [Lat.],
vanity,
inanity,
worthlessness,
nugacity†;
triviality
etc.
(unimportance)
643.
caput mortuum [Lat.],
waste paper,
dead letter;
blunt tool.
litter,
rubbish,
junk,
lumber,
odds and ends,
cast-off clothes;
button top;
shoddy;
rags,
orts†,
trash,
refuse,
sweepings,
scourings,
offscourings†,
waste,
rubble,
debris,
detritus;
stubble,
leavings;
broken meat;
dregs
etc.
(dirt)
653;
weeds,
tares;
rubbish heap,
dust hole;
rudera†,
deads†.
fruges consumere natus [Lat.]
[Horace].
etc.
(drone)
683
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Roget 651:
imperfection;
imperfectness
etc.
adj.;
deficiency;
inadequacy
etc.
(insufficiency)
640;
peccancy
etc.
(badness)
649†;
immaturity
etc.
674.
fault,
defect,
weak point;
screw loose;
flaw
etc.
(break)
70;
gap
etc.
198;
twist
etc.
243;
taint,
attainder;
bar sinister,
hole in one's coat;
blemish
etc.
848;
weakness
etc.
160;
half blood;
shortcoming
etc.
304;
drawback;
seamy side.
mediocrity;
no great shakes,
no great catch;
not much to boast of;
one-horse shay.
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Dutch: slapte
Polish: niedostateczność, niewystarczalność
2 inadequacy
A lack of competence:
— Juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents.
synonym: insufficiency.
3 inadequacy
Unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate.
synonym: inadequateness.
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