insufficient - 5 dictionary results
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Language Translation for : insufficient
| Spanish: | insuficiente, | German: | unzureichend, | Japanese: | 不十分な |
| in·suf·fi·cient
(ĭn'sə-fĭsh'ənt) Pronunciation Key
adj. Not sufficient; inadequate. in'suf·fi'cient·ly adv. |
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insufficient
c.1386, from O.Fr. insufficient, from L. insufficientem (nom. insufficiens), from in- "not" + sufficientem (see sufficient). Originally of persons, "inadequate, unable;" of things, from 1494.
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| insufficient | |
adjective | |
| of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement; "insufficient funds" [ant: sufficient] |
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Insufficient
In`suf*fi"cien*cy\, n. [L. insufficientia: cf. F. insuffisance, whence OE. insuffisance. See Insufficient.]1. The quality or state of being insufficient; want of sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the insufficiency of provisions, of an excuse, etc. The insufficiency of the light of nature is, by the light of Scripture, . . . fully supplied. --Hooker. 2. Want of power or skill; inability; incapacity; incompetency; as, the insufficiency of a man for an office.
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