| 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" |
| 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. |
| scant | | |
| v. (social) | 1. scant, skimp | work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially. |
| ~ work | exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity.; "I will work hard to improve my grades"; "she worked hard for better living conditions for the poor" |
| v. (social) | 2. scant, skimp | limit in quality or quantity. |
| ~ restrict | place under restrictions; limit access to.; "This substance is controlled" |
| v. (possession) | 3. scant, skimp, stint | supply sparingly and with restricted quantities.; "sting with the allowance" |
| ~ furnish, provide, supply, render | give something useful or necessary to.; "We provided the room with an electrical heater" |
| adj. | 4. light, scant, short | less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight" |
| ~ insufficient, deficient | of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement.; "insufficient funds" |
| scarce | | |
| adj. | 1. scarce | deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand.; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought" |
| ~ rare | not widely distributed.; "rare herbs"; "rare patches of green in the desert" |
| ~ tight | affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow.; "tight money"; "a tight market" |
| ~ meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy | deficient in amount or quality or extent.; "meager resources"; "meager fare" |
| adv. | 2. barely, hardly, just, scarce, scarcely | only a very short time before.; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave" |
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