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Webster 1913 Edition
Deficient
De-fi′cient
,Adj.
Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking;
as,
deficient
parts; deficient
estate; deficient
strength; deficient
in judgment.The style was indeed
– deficient
in ease and variety. Macaulay.
De-fi′cient-ly
, adv.
Webster 1828 Edition
Deficient
DEFICIENT
, a.1.
Wanting; defective; imperfect; not sufficient or adequate; as deficient estate; deficient strength.2.
Wanting; not having a full or adequate supply; as, the country may be deficient in the means of carrying on war.Deficient numbers, in arithmetic, are those numbers, whose parts, added together, make less than the integer, whose parts they are.
Definition 2024
deficient
deficient
See also: déficient
English
Adjective
deficient (comparative more deficient, superlative most deficient)
- Lacking something essential; often construed with in.
- Insufficient or inadequate in amount.
Related terms
Translations
lacking something essential
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insufficient or inadequate in amount
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External links
- deficient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- deficient in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911