deficiency 音标拼音: [dɪf'ɪʃənsi]
n . 缺乏,不足,缺陷
缺乏,不足,缺陷
deficiency n 1 :
the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable ; "
there is a serious lack of insight into the problem "; "
water is the critical deficiency in desert regions "; "
for want of a nail the shoe was lost " [
synonym :
{
lack }, {
deficiency }, {
want }]
2 :
lack of an adequate quantity or number ; "
the inadequacy of unemployment benefits " [
synonym : {
insufficiency }, {
inadequacy },
{
deficiency }] [
ant : {
adequacy }, {
sufficiency }]
Deficiency \
De *
fi "
cien *
cy \,
n .;
pl . {
Deficiencies }. [
See {
Deficient }.]
The state of being deficient ;
inadequacy ;
want ;
failure ;
imperfection ;
shortcoming ;
defect . "
A deficiency of blood ."
--
Arbuthnot .
[
1913 Webster ]
[
Marlborough ]
was so miserably ignorant ,
that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries . --
Buckle .
[
1913 Webster ]
{
Deficiency of a curve } (
Geom .),
the amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree .
[
1913 Webster ]
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "
deficiency ":
absence ,
adulteration ,
arrearage ,
arrestment ,
baseness ,
beggary ,
blemish ,
break ,
bug ,
callowness ,
catch ,
crack ,
dearth ,
defalcation ,
default ,
defect ,
defectibility ,
defection ,
defectiveness ,
deficit ,
demerit ,
deprivation ,
dereliction ,
destitution ,
discontinuity ,
drawback ,
drought ,
erroneousness ,
failing ,
failure ,
fallibility ,
famine ,
fault ,
faultiness ,
faute ,
fewness ,
flaw ,
foible ,
frailty ,
gap ,
hiatus ,
hole ,
immaturity ,
impairment ,
imperfection ,
impoverishment ,
impurity ,
inaccuracy ,
inadequacy ,
inadequateness ,
incompetence ,
incompleteness ,
incompletion ,
inexactitude ,
inexactness ,
infirmity ,
insufficiency ,
interval ,
kink ,
lack ,
lacuna ,
little problem ,
littleness ,
maladroitness ,
meanness ,
mediocrity ,
miscarriage ,
missing link ,
need ,
neglect ,
omission ,
outage ,
patchiness ,
pettiness ,
privation ,
problem ,
rift ,
scantiness ,
scrappiness ,
shabbiness ,
short measure ,
short weight ,
shortage ,
shortcoming ,
shortfall ,
sin ,
sketchiness ,
smallness ,
snag ,
something missing ,
starvation ,
subnormality ,
taint ,
triviality ,
ullage ,
underage ,
underdevelopment ,
undevelopment ,
unevenness ,
unperfectedness ,
unskillfulness ,
unsoundness ,
vulgarity ,
vulnerable place ,
want ,
wantage ,
weak link ,
weak point ,
weakness
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