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insufficient

[in-suh-fish-uhnt]

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adjective

not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.

deficient in force, quality, or amount; inadequate: insufficient protection.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin insufficient- (stem of insufficiēns). See in-³, sufficient

Related forms

in·suf·fi·cient·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. inadequate, scanty, deficient.

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There may be signs of chronically insufficient oxygen levels in the blood.

We expected the schools to achieve all of that while granting them a dime where a dollar would have been insufficient.

The second could be that there is insufficient demand.

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There may be signs of chronically insufficient oxygen levels in the blood.

We expected the schools to achieve all of that while granting them a dime where a dollar would have been insufficient.

The second could be that there is insufficient demand.

The bears then come onto land, where they have insufficient food until the sea ice refreezes in the fall.

Though the behemoths are endangered, the land set aside for them is insufficient.

Insufficient chilling results in delayed leafout, a scanty crop, and eventual death of the tree.

Insufficient or improperly fitted equipment could be to blame.

Doctors placed the latest artificial heart recipient on dialysis today because of insufficient kidney function.

Too many professors lack recent teaching experience and have insufficient contact with schools.

There is likely to be insufficient local demand for another large bond issue in the near term.

They may have improved somewhat but are still insufficient.

And this goes for the predominant, yet insufficient to predict much, functional sum and fire model.

Insufficient waste management facilities and expertise make cleanliness difficult to attain.

Officials said private donations from boosters had been insufficient to pay for the entire program.

Yeah, it's pretty silly when the real holocaust is insufficient admiration by the press towards conservatism.

At the beginning its leaves were plagued with white spots, which the researchers chalked up to insufficient nutrients.

There seems to be insufficient evidence to determine the frequency of any specific events.

Insufficient rest can also cause people to have hallucinations.

Support from your department is insufficient for your growing research agenda.

Insufficient capacity is not even the biggest problem.

Explain that insufficient rainfall for extended periods of time can happen in many places, not only in dry climates.

Weak science reaching for a premature conclusion from insufficient data and an inadequate experiment.

There's lots of evidence that this is insufficient protection.

Other issues include insufficient research budgets and complex administrative procedures.

Although politicians pay lip service to those goals, insufficient effort has been made to structure incentives in that direction.

Right now, areas that are strictly protected from logging are small and insufficient.

Network operators frequently try to solve the challenge by increasing resources, but that strategy is often insufficient.

Critics said it had insufficient privacy protections.

Tuirán acknowledged that those efforts remain insufficient to meet demand for spots at traditional universities.

As well as the liquidations, a handful of private banks with insufficient capital have closed.

So far, there is insufficient information to check the accuracy of those early estimates.

Third, it is completely insufficient to say no without proposing an alternative.

Russians also eat lots of unhealthy food and take insufficient exercise.

The help page on this topic was insufficient to help me find the right folder or the folder does not exist.

At this point the predator specie will then decline from starvation and disease as a result of insufficient food.

Of course, this has been done already but the scale was insufficient.

There aren't insufficient resources for the people, there are too many people for the resources.

Yet the opposition, successfully it seems, mocks their efforts as insufficient or mistaken.

Simply believing in the role of demand-side factors in the determination of aggregate output is an insufficient characterisation.

The current-account deficit is a direct, arithmetical reflection of insufficient domestic saving.

Another concern is that courts order insufficient alimony payments and too often favour men in custody cases.

Home-grown academic prowess has so far proved an insufficient lure for foreign investors.

And the sanitation it has built would be hopelessly insufficient even if properly used, which it is not.

Moss of two bribery charges on the ground that there was insufficient evidence.

The grant aid available to low- and moderate-income students is insufficient to ensure that they will enroll and stay in college.

The increase in official retirement ages so far is probably insufficient to make state pensions affordable in the longer run.

He was acquitted, the evidence being manifestly insufficient for conviction.

They worry about the quality of online courses, say teaching them takes more effort, and grouse about insufficient support.

Thanks in part to heavy demand and insufficient capacity, the phone's launch today did not go smoothly.

The company's troubles are attributed to insufficient working capital to swing its large business.

They think insufficient attention is being given to more positive factors-not.

It may be that there is insufficient data to prove one way or the other, as is often the case in the deep past.

On the other hand, insufficient talc will not prevent the inner tube from sticking to the envelope.

Powell said, but he hastened to add that the survey data the researchers worked with was insufficient to prove that theory.

Several planned projects have been cancelled due to insufficient financing.

Jurors said they had found insufficient evidence to convict the defendant.

People are encouraged to walk and make the best exercise out of an insufficient and run down public transport.

Furthermore, when the people with families finally got home they often had insufficient time for spouses and children.

These scant stocks are woefully insufficient to treat the constant stream of patients who use the city's hospitals.

Burnett said that it had not been determined why the blood samples were insufficient but that this.

If they do, even the best-funded scheme may be insufficient to stop it.

The environmental factors that influence intelligence are mostly deleterious, such as insufficient iodine, or exposure to lead.

Public health officials link insufficient playtime to a rise in childhood obesity.

Informing your references that calls may come in, is necessary, but insufficient.

The regulations are out of date, and take insufficient account of new financial derivatives and other money-market innovations.

But those genetic factors seem to have been insufficient to cause disease on their.

The negative effects of insufficient sleep on learning and academic engagement are quite real.

First, consider that a three month emergency fund may be insufficient.

Insufficient demand and slow job creation remain big problems.

Droughts and insufficient rainfall contribute to what's known as water risk, along with floods and contamination.

The newspaper said many importers wanted to turn to domestically produced steel, but that domestic output was insufficient.

When you do the sums, he argues, raw meat is still insufficient to bridge the gap.

Insufficient attention on environmental issues results in the present mess.

The biologists said the rest may have died from insufficient oxygen or nutrients in their water.

There also were insufficient resources and equipment.

Even direct measurement of the pathway may be insufficient to firmly establish the accuracy of the result.

And his insufficient skepticism toward sources led him to some naive judgments.

At an absolute minimum you would need a master's degree but even that is likely insufficient.

It is likely to be a vain exercise: unnecessary if the downturn is mild, but insufficient to deal with a truly dire mess.

Infanticide in the face of insufficient metabolic resources is something that essentially all mammals exhibit.

It is not that dance has insufficient works of genius compared to the other arts.

They need to develop these skills and part of that process is understanding how their current skill sets are insufficient.

Present electrical supplies are quite insufficient to supply a huge new demand for power.

My winter clothing is so woefully insufficient after spending the last two years in balmy.

Reliability is necessary, but insufficient to demonstrate validity.

In a stall, there is insufficient air flowing over the wings.

Your personal recollections of popular recollections are insufficient evidence.

There will come a time when your personal and local resources are insufficient to make further progress on an article.

My own conclusion is that he probably did it but that there was insufficient evidence to warrant execution.

Their failure was insufficient mitigation of this risk in their original project plan.

Yet those claims, while necessary, were insufficient without a belief that the practices also violated standards of honor.

But then if you closely examine the dates of the wave and the dates of the famine, you see that it is an insufficient explanation.

People who are feeling overwhelmed, with insufficient information, also feel out of control over their situation.

Simply having faculty members in a given specialization is insufficient justification for also maintaining a doctoral program.

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World English Dictionary

insufficient (ˌɪnsəˈfɪʃənt)

—*adj*
	not sufficient; inadequate or deficient

insuf'ficiently

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

insufficient

late 14c., 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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Medical Dictionary

insufficient in·suf·fi·cient (ĭn'sə-fĭsh'ənt)
adj.

Not sufficient.
Incapable of proper functioning.

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