All insufficience synonyms

noun insufficience

• imperfection — an imperfect detail; flaw: a law full of imperfections.
• inadequacy — Also, inadequateness [in-ad-i-kwit-nis] /ɪnˈæd ɪ kwɪt nɪs/ (Show IPA). the state or condition of being inadequate; insufficiency.
• dearth — If there is a dearth of something, there is not enough of it.
• defect — A defect is a fault or imperfection in a person or thing.
• failing — Slang. an embarrassing or humorous mistake, humiliating situation, etc., that is subject to ridicule and given an exaggerated importance: Their app update is a massive fail. the condition or quality resulting from having failed in this way: His online post is full of fail. a person who fails in this way.
• failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
• fault — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
• flaw — Also called windflaw. a sudden, usually brief windstorm or gust of wind.
• frailty — the quality or state of being frail.
• glitch — a defect or malfunction in a machine or plan.
• insufficiency — deficiency in amount, force, power, competence, or fitness; inadequacy: insufficiency of supplies.
• lack — something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.
• scarcity — insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth.
• shortage — a deficiency in quantity: a shortage of cash.
• shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
• weakness — the state or quality of being weak; lack of strength, firmness, vigor, or the like; feebleness.
• absence — Someone's absence from a place is the fact that they are not there.
• bug — A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
• defalcation — the amount embezzled
• default — If a person, company, or country defaults on something that they have legally agreed to do, such as paying some money or doing a piece of work before a particular time, they fail to do it.
• deficit — A deficit is the amount by which something is less than what is required or expected, especially the amount by which the total money received is less than the total money spent.
• demerit — The demerits of something or someone are their faults or disadvantages.
• dereliction — If a building or a piece of land is in a state of dereliction, it is deserted or abandoned.
• loss — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
• need — a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• paucity — smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness: a country with a paucity of resources.
• privation — lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
• scantiness — scant in amount, quantity, etc.; barely sufficient.
• sin — the 12th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
• want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
• required — to have need of; need: He requires medical care.
• shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
• arrears — Arrears are amounts of money that you owe, especially regular payments that you should have made earlier.
• deficiency — Deficiency in something, especially something that your body needs, is not having enough of it.
• dues — owed at present; having reached the date for payment: This bill is due.
• dead horse — something that has ceased to be useful or relevant.
• due bill — a brief written acknowledgment of indebtedness, not payable to order.
• in hock — If someone is in hock, they are in debt.
• in the hole — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
• in the red — any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers.
• red ink — a financial deficit; business loss.
• underage — lacking the required age, especially that of legal maturity.
• poverty — the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor. Synonyms: privation, neediness, destitution, indigence, pauperism, penury. Antonyms: riches, wealth, plenty.
• reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
• abridgement — a shortened or condensed form of a book, speech, etc., that still retains the basic contents: an abridgment of Tolstoy's War and Peace.
• curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• depletion — a depleting or being depleted
• deprivation — If you suffer deprivation, you do not have or are prevented from having something that you want or need.