- Types Of Speech
- You can use deficient as a article or as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Deficient
- A 4 syllables article and 9 letters with the letters c, d, e, f, i, n, and t, 5 consonants, 4 vowels and 4 syllables with the middle letter c. Deficient starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters d, de, def, defi, defic, and the ending characters are t, nt, ent, ient, cient, ..
- Definition
- Inadequate in amount or degree; "a deficient education"; "deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested and found wanting"
- Origin/Roots
- Latin
- School Grade
- Deficient is set as a grade five word that starts with d, ends with t, 4 syllables, 4 vowels and 9 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Deficient in Pig Latin is said as "eficientday or eficientdway".
- Unigram
- d | e | f | i | c | i | e | n | t
- Bigram
- de | ef | fi | ic | ci | ie | en | nt
- Trigram
- def | efi | fic | ici | cie | ien | ent
- Quadrigram
- defi | efic | fici | icie | cien | ient
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- inadequate in amount or degree;
"a deficient education";
"deficient in common sense";
"lacking in stamina";
"tested and found wanting" - falling short of some prescribed norm;
"substandard housing"
- Article Examples
- of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement;
"insufficient funds"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adulterate | corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones "adulterate liquor" |
| Adulterated | mixed with impurities |
| Afflicted | mentally or physically unfit |
| Amiss | in an imperfect or faulty way "The lobe was imperfectly developed" "Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practiced more"- Jane Austen |
| Arrested | having development checked or reversed "arrested tuberculosis" |
| Assorted | consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds (even to the point of incongruity) "an arrangement of assorted spring flowers" "assorted sizes" "miscellaneous accessories" "a mixed program of baroque and contemporary music" "a motley crew" " |
| Awkward | not at ease socially unsure and constrained in manner "awkward and reserved at parties" "ill at ease among eddies of people he didn''t know" "was always uneasy with strangers" |
| Babe | a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk "isn''t she too young to have a baby?" |
| Baby | a project of personal concern to someone "this project is his baby" |
| Bad | that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency "take the bad with the good" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Deficient
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Deficient | inadequate in amount or degree "a deficient education" "deficient in common sense" "lacking in stamina" "tested and found wanting" |
View English words with the unique letters used in deficient. Words With The Letters Cdefint
| Similar Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Inadequate | (sometimes followed by `to'') not meeting the requirements especially of a task; "inadequate training"; "the staff was inadequate"; "she was inadequate to the job" |
| Title | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Negative Feelings | Describe deficient | A word list of negative feeling words and the best English words to describe negative emotions. Emotional negative words... read more |
Deficient Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With D
- Ends With T
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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