Definition of Deficient

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Deficient

Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment.

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Deficient Quotations

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.
Toni Morrison

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
Salman Rushdie

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
Washington Irving

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.
Adam Weishaupt

You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.
William John Wills

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

Deficient Translations

deficient in French is vicieux
deficient in German is mangelhaft
deficient in Italian is difettivo
deficient in Norwegian is mangelfull, utilstrekkelig
deficient in Spanish is tachoso, deficiente

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