English Explanatory Dictionary

deficient

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Lacking something essential; often construed with in.
  2. Insufficient or inadequate in amount.
  3. Of a number n, Having the sum of divisors σ(n)<2n, or, equivalently, the sum of proper divisors (or aliquot sum) s(n)<n.
noun
  1. A person who is deficient.

Pronunciation

/dɪˈfɪʃənt/ en-us-deficient.ogg

Word forms

deficient more deficient most deficient deficients

Etymology

From Latin deficiens, present participle of deficere (“to lack, fail, be wanting”); see defect.

Synonyms

absent poor in void of awanting bereft of deficient of deprived of destitute of devoid of lacking leer robbed of shorn of stripped of wanting

Related words

defect defection defective defector deficiency deficit

Derived words

bideficient biodeficient deficient-demand unemployment deficiently deficientness deficient number demand-deficient unemployment haplodeficient hyperdeficient immunodeficient indeficient mental deficient multideficient nondeficient phosphodeficient pseudodeficient rank-deficient self-deficient undeficient
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