insufficiency

Roget category 640

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.2. Subservience to ends

#640. Insufficiency

noun

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.

verb

be insufficient etc. adj. — not suffice etc. 639 — come short of etc. 304 — run dry.
want, lack, need, require — caret — be in want etc. (poor) 804, live from hand to mouth.
render insufficient etc.

adjective

— drain of resources, impoverish etc. (waste) 638 — stint etc. (begrudge) 819 — put on short allowance.
do insufficiently etc. adv. — scotch the snake.

adjective

insufficient, inadequate — too little etc. 32 — not enough etc. 639 — unequal to — incompetent etc. (impotent) 158 — weighed in the balance and found wanting —" perfunctory etc. (neglect) 460 — deficient etc. (incomplete) 53 — wanting, etc. v. — imperfect etc. 651 — ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill-stored, ill-off.
slack, at a low ebb — empty, vacant, bare — short of, out of, destitute of, devoid of, bereft of etc. 789 — denuded of — dry, drained.
unprovided, unsupplied^†, unfurnished — unreplenished, unfed^† — unstored^†, untreasured^† — empty-handed.
meager, poor, thin, scrimp, sparing, spare, stinted — starved, starving — halfstarved, famine-stricken, famished — jejune.
scant etc. (small) 32 — scarce — not to be had, not to be had for love or money, not to be had at any price — scurvy — stingy etc. 819 — at the end of one's tether — without resources etc. 632 — in want etc. (poor) 804 — in debt etc. 806.

adverb

insufficiently etc. adj. — in default of, for want of — failing.

phrase

semper avarus eget [Lat.] [Horace].

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