Synonyms:
insufficient, deficient
Meaning: of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement; "insufficient funds"
Usage examples
"Do you think you can find her with such insufficient data?
Such recourse was insufficient to the denizens of Quicksand.
In each case the collateral deposited had already been insufficient.
Insufficient bedding and clothing, a few pans and kettles, were their sole movable wealth.
But, sir, the stoppage of private industry is the result of over-production, and insufficient markets.
"I have now enumerated," said Barbicane, "the experiments which I call purely paper ones, and wholly insufficient to establish serious relations with the Queen of the Night.
These berths, to be sure, were so exceedingly narrow as to be insufficient for more than one person; still, I could not comprehend why there were three state-rooms for these four persons.
He had not spoken of it to her, silenced by the piteous bane of insufficient income; but now almost he was free. When he spoke, the breadth and depth of the thing it was would induce her assent.
He at first declined to accept the office, on the ground that he was advanced in age, that he had already retired from official life, and that the decline of his life left him insufficient energy.
In our flight, we little folks were strapped in the saddles or held in front of an older person, and in the long night marches to get away from the soldiers, we suffered from loss of sleep and insufficient food.