| absence | | |
| n. (state) | 1. absence | the state of being absent.; "he was surprised by the absence of any explanation" |
| ~ nonoccurrence | absence by virtue of not occurring. |
| ~ awayness | the state of being elsewhere than in particular place. |
| ~ deficiency, lack, want | the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" |
| n. (act) | 2. absence | failure to be present. |
| ~ cut | an unexcused absence from class.; "he was punished for taking too many cuts in his math class" |
| ~ default | loss due to not showing up.; "he lost the game by default" |
| ~ nonattendance | the failure to attend. |
| ~ absenteeism | habitual absence from work. |
| n. (time) | 3. absence | the time interval during which something or somebody is away.; "he visited during my absence" |
| ~ interval, time interval | a definite length of time marked off by two instants. |
| n. (state) | 4. absence, absence seizure | the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy. |
| ~ ictus, raptus, seizure | a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease.; "he suffered an epileptic seizure" |
| ~ epilepsia minor, petit mal, petit mal epilepsy | epilepsy characterized by paroxysmal attacks of brief clouding of consciousness (and possibly other abnormalities).; "she has been suffering from petit mal since childhood" |
| ~ complex absence | an absence seizure accompanied by other abnormalities (atonia or automatisms or vasomotor changes). |
| ~ pure absence, simple absence | an absence seizure without other complications; followed by 3-per-sec brainwave spikes. |
| ~ subclinical absence | a transient impairment of cortical function demonstrable only by 3-per-second brainwave spikes. |
| deficiency | | |
| n. (state) | 1. deficiency, lack, want | the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" |
| ~ absence | the state of being absent.; "he was surprised by the absence of any explanation" |
| ~ need, demand | a condition requiring relief.; "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs" |
| ~ dearth, famine, shortage | an acute insufficiency. |
| ~ deficit | a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning.; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits" |
| ~ mineral deficiency | lack of a mineral micronutrient that is essential for normal nutrition or metabolism. |
| ~ shortness | the condition of being short of something.; "there was no shortness of money"; "can cause shortness of breath" |
| ~ stringency, tightness | a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency | lack of an adequate quantity or number.; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" |
| ~ amount | the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion.; "an adequate amount of food for four people" |
| ~ exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness, poorness | the quality of being meager.; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes" |
| ~ deficit, shortage, shortfall | the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required.; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit" |
| ~ scarceness, scarcity | a small and inadequate amount. |
| ~ slenderness | the quality of being slight or inadequate.; "he knew the slenderness of my wallet"; "the slenderness of the chances that anything would be done"; "the slenderness of the evidence" |
| lack | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. lack, miss | be without.; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewelry box!" |
| ~ want | be without, lack; be deficient in.; "want courtesy"; "want the strength to go on living"; "flood victims wanting food and shelter" |
| ~ exclude | lack or fail to include.; "The cost for the trip excludes food and beverages" |
| scarcity | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. scarceness, scarcity | a small and inadequate amount. |
| ~ inadequacy, deficiency, insufficiency | lack of an adequate quantity or number.; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" |
| ~ paucity, dearth | an insufficient quantity or number. |
| ~ infrequency, rareness, rarity | noteworthy scarcity. |
| shortage | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. deficit, shortage, shortfall | the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required.; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit" |
| ~ inadequacy, deficiency, insufficiency | lack of an adequate quantity or number.; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" |
| ~ oxygen deficit | temporary oxygen shortage in cells resulting from strenuous exercise. |
| n. (state) | 2. dearth, famine, shortage | an acute insufficiency. |
| ~ deficiency, lack, want | the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" |
| devoid | | |
| adj. | 1. barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent | completely wanting or lacking.; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" |
| ~ nonexistent | not having existence or being or actuality.; "chimeras are nonexistent" |
| insufficient | | |
| adj. | 1. deficient, insufficient | of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement.; "insufficient funds" |
| ~ meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy | deficient in amount or quality or extent.; "meager resources"; "meager fare" |
| ~ depleted, low | no longer sufficient.; "supplies are low"; "our funds are depleted" |
| ~ inadequate, short, poor | not sufficient to meet a need.; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience" |
| ~ skimpy, lean | containing little excess.; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance" |
| ~ scant, short, light | less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight" |
| ~ shy | short.; "eleven is one shy of a dozen" |
| less | | |
| adj. | 1. less | (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.; "of less importance"; "less time to spend with the family"; "a shower uses less water"; "less than three years old" |
| ~ comparative, comparative degree | the comparative form of an adjective or adverb.; "`faster' is the comparative of the adjective `fast'"; "`less famous' is the comparative degree of the adjective `famous'"; "`more surely' is the comparative of the adverb `surely'" |
| ~ slight, little | (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some.; "little rain fell in May"; "gave it little thought"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work" |
| adj. | 2. less | (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality.; "no less than perfect" |
| ~ inferior | of low or inferior quality. |
| adj. | 3. less | (nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases) fewer.; "less than three weeks"; "no less than 50 people attended"; "in 25 words or less" |
| ~ fewer | (comparative of `few' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning a smaller number of.; "fewer birds came this year"; "the birds are fewer this year"; "fewer trains were late" |
| adv. | 4. less, to a lesser extent | used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs.; "less interesting"; "less expensive"; "less quickly" |
| adv. | 5. less | comparative of little.; "she walks less than she should"; "he works less these days" |
| meager | | |
| adj. | 1. meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy | deficient in amount or quality or extent.; "meager resources"; "meager fare" |
| ~ scarce | deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand.; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought" |
| ~ scanty, bare, spare | lacking in amplitude or quantity.; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet" |
| ~ exiguous | extremely scanty.; "an exiguous budget" |
| ~ hand-to-mouth | providing only bare essentials.; "a hand-to-mouth existence" |
| ~ hardscrabble | barely satisfying a lower standard.; "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life" |
| ~ measly, paltry, miserable | contemptibly small in amount.; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans" |
| ~ minimal, minimum | the least possible.; "needed to enforce minimal standards"; "her grades were minimal"; "minimum wage"; "a minimal charge for the service" |
| ~ insufficient, deficient | of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement.; "insufficient funds" |
| scanty | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. pantie, panty, scanty, step-in | short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural). |
| ~ underpants | an undergarment that covers the body from the waist no further than to the thighs; usually worn next to the skin. |
| ~ plural, plural form | the form of a word that is used to denote more than one. |
| adj. | 2. bare, scanty, spare | lacking in amplitude or quantity.; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet" |
| ~ meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy | deficient in amount or quality or extent.; "meager resources"; "meager fare" |
| sketchy | | |
| adj. | 1. sketchy, unelaborated | giving only major points; lacking completeness.; "a sketchy account"; "details of the plan remain sketchy" |
| ~ incomplete, uncomplete | not complete or total; not completed.; "an incomplete account of his life"; "political consequences of incomplete military success"; "an incomplete forward pass" |
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