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The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.
Samuel George Morton

Meaning of "deficient" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DEFICIENT

From Latin dēficiēns lacking, from dēficere to fall short.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DEFICIENT

deficient  [dɪˈfɪʃənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEFICIENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Deficient is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DEFICIENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of deficient in the English dictionary

The definition of deficient in the dictionary is lacking some essential; incomplete; defective. Other definition of deficient is inadequate in quantity or supply; insufficient.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEFICIENT


abortifacient
əˌbɔːtɪˈfeɪʃənt
absorbefacient
əbˌsɔːbɪˈfeɪʃənt
coefficient
ˌkəʊɪˈfɪʃənt
efficient
ɪˈfɪʃənt
hyperefficient
ˌhaɪpərɪˈfɪʃənt
immunodeficient
ˌɪmjʊnəʊdɪˈfɪʃənt
impatient
ɪmˈpeɪʃənt
inefficient
ˌɪnɪˈfɪʃənt
inpatient
ˈɪnˌpeɪʃənt
insufficient
ˌɪnsəˈfɪʃənt
liquefacient
ˌlɪkwɪˈfeɪʃənt
outpatient
ˈaʊtˌpeɪʃənt
patient
ˈpeɪʃənt
perficient
pəˈfɪʃənt
proficient
prəˈfɪʃənt
sorbefacient
ˌsɔːbɪˈfeɪʃənt
sufficient
səˈfɪʃənt
superefficient
ˌsuːpərɪˈfɪʃənt
ultraefficient
ˌʌltrəɪˈfɪʃənt
unsufficient
ˌʌnsəˈfɪʃənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEFICIENT

defibrillator
defibrinate
defibrination
defibrinise
defibrinize
deficience
deficiencies
deficiency
deficiency disease
deficiency payment
deficiently
deficientness
deficit
deficit financing
defied
defier
defies
defilade
defile
defilement

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEFICIENT

ancient
beta coefficient
binomial coefficient
client
conscient
correlation coefficient
diffusion coefficient
drag coefficient
energy-efficient
fuel-efficient
inconscient
omniscient
partition coefficient
parturifacient
Pearson´s correlation coefficient
Pearson´s product moment correlation coefficient
permeability coefficient
prescient
scient
self-sufficient
tumefacient

Synonyms and antonyms of deficient in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DEFICIENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «deficient» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of deficient

Translation of «deficient» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEFICIENT

Find out the translation of deficient to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of deficient from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «deficient» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

缺乏的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

insuficiente
570 millions of speakers

English

deficient
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कमी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ناقصة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

дефицитом
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

deficiente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ন্যূন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pauvre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kekurangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unzulänglich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不足した
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

결핍된
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kurang
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thiếu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குறைபாடுள்ள
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अपुरे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

eksik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

carente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niedoborem
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дефіцитом
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

deficitare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανεπάρκεια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gebrekkige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

deficient
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mangel
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of deficient

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEFICIENT»

The term «deficient» is very widely used and occupies the 21.892 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEFICIENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «deficient» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «deficient» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about deficient

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10 QUOTES WITH «DEFICIENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word deficient.
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Seth Berkley
You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens when measles goes through a nutritionally deficient community. It's a horrible disease, and it spreads incredibly efficiently.
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Tara Brach
My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Joel Fuhrman
The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease.
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Martin Heidegger
Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
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Laurie Helgoe
When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.
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Mark Hyman
Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and increasingly get scurvy and rickets, diseases we thought were left behind in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Toni Morrison
I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.
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Samuel George Morton
The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.
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Adam Weishaupt
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEFICIENT»

Discover the use of deficient in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to deficient and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cell Wall Deficient Forms, Third Edition: Stealth Pathogens
This method typically renders the diagnosis within 72 hours. The book examines a plethora of issues and provides answers to the following questions: What organism should be added to the childhood vaccine, especially for boys?
Lida H. Mattman, 2000
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The ACL-Deficient Knee: A Problem Solving Approach
"The ACL-Deficient Knee: A Problem Solving Approach, focuses on problem analysis and problem solving, as well as analyzing the possibility of prevention.
Vicente Sanchis-Alfonso, Joan Carles Monllau, 2012
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Cell wall deficient forms: stealth pathogens
The book discusses protoplasts as efficient genetic tools, L forms essential to the food chain for their ability to reclaim nitrogen in the air, an L form pathogenic to a flowering plant, and new information on male sterility caused by ...
Lida H. Mattman, 1993
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How to Know If You are Magnesium Deficient - 75% of ...
Topics: . Why magnesium is essential to your health and to your life .
Elizabeteh Lipski, 2005
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Theory of Entire and Meromorphic Functions: Deficient and ...
This book was originally written in Chinese in 1986 by the noted complex analyst Zhang Guan-Hou, who was a research fellow at the Academia Sinica.
Guan-hou Zhang, 1993
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Rank-Deficient and Discrete Ill-Posed Problems: Numerical ...
This book describes, in a common framework, new and existing numerical methods for the analysis and solution of rank-deficient and discrete ill-posed problems.
Per Christian Hansen, 1998
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Ignorance: (On the Wider Implications of Deficient Knowledge)
Such impediments set limits to inquiry and mean that while we can always extend our existing knowledge-variability here is infinite-there are things that we will never know.
Nicholas Rescher, 2009
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Nursing Diagnosis: Application to Clinical Practice
KNOWLEDGE. DEFINITION Deficient Knowledge: State in which a person or group experiences a deficiency in cognitive knowledge or psychomotor skills concerning the condition or treatment plan DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS ...
Lynda Juall Carpenito-Moyet, 2006
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Electron deficient boron and carbon clusters
Compares and contrasts the structure and chemistry of boron clusters, carbon clusters, and carboranes and their derivatives. Honors the pioneering works of William Lipscomb.
George Andrew Olah, Kenneth Wade, Robert E. Williams, 1991
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Hydrogen-deficient Stars: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at ...
"These are the proceedings of a conference on Hydrogen-Deficient Stars held at the University of Tübingen, Germany, from September 17-21 2007. This conference was the third in a series of international colloquia on this topic.
Klaus Werner, Thomas Rauch, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEFICIENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term deficient is used in the context of the following news items.
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Caltrans: Two In Three Bridges In Region 'Structurally Deficient'
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Out of the 90 bridges in the region, about 60 of them have been deemed structurally deficient. Caltrans crews ... «CBS Local, Jul 15»
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Deficient rainfall hits paddy cultivation in Udupi district
Rainfall is deficient by 26.35 per cent in the district since January. ... president of the Zilla Krishik Sangha, the deficient rainfall made it difficult ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
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Deficient rain likely to hit paddy yield in district
Sugarcane, another water-consuming crop cultivated last season, won't be affected by the deficient rainfall. Crops such as soybean and corn ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
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On 'borrowed time' are Neshoba County School District's structurally …
... borrowed time" due to its lack of compliance with ADA and safety codes and a structurally deficient high school, officials told a crowd of about ... «Philadelphia Neshoba Democrat, Jul 15»
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The Ontario Court of Appeal finds franchise disclosure document …
... Court to conclude that the disclosure document was materially deficient. As a result, the franchisee was entitled to rescission and damages. «Lexology, Jul 15»
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Deficient monsoon will not impact rural spending much, says India …
NEW DELHI: India Ratings, an associate of global credit rating agency Fitch, said the impact of deficient monsoon on rural spending will be ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»
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A new tissue-specific FLCN-deficient mouse model of renal …
Immunohistochemistry confirmed that the cysts had developed from proximal tubule cells and were Flcn-deficient. Where complete Flcn ... «ScienceBlog.com, Jul 15»
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Centre Assures No Threat to Paddy Crop, Despite Deficient Rain …
Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast 8 per cent and 10 per cent deficient rains for July and August, respectively. The country ... «NDTV, Jul 15»
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State reinspects 230 'structurally deficient' spans
State reinspects 230 'structurally deficient' spans ... to a program of accelerated reinspections of the state's 230 “structurally deficient” bridges. «The Providence Journal, Jul 15»
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Will not allow prices of food items to rise due to deficient monsoon …
New Delhi: The government on Thursday said it will not allow prices of essential food items to increase due to the impact of possible deficient ... «Firstpost, Jul 15»

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