insufficiency
Roget-categorie 640
5. Words relating to the voluntary powers› 5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.2. Subservience to ends
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Insufficiency
zelfstandig naamwoord
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.
werkwoord
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.
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
—
drain of resources,
impoverish
etc.
(waste)
638 —
stint
etc.
(begrudge)
819 —
put on short allowance.
do insufficiently
etc.
adv. —
scotch the snake.
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
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.
bijwoord
insufficiently
etc.
adj. —
in default of,
for want of —
failing.
uitdrukking
semper avarus eget [Lat.]
[Horace].
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