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Definition of Insufficient
Insufficient

Not sufficient; not enough; inadequate to any need, use, or purpose; as, the provisions are insufficient in quantity, and defective in quality.

Wanting in strength, power, ability, capacity, or skill; incompetent; incapable; unfit; as, a person insufficient to discharge the duties of an office.

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Insufficient Quotations

Virtue is insufficient temptation.
George Bernard Shaw

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
George Santayana

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
William James

While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.
Maimonides

Insufficient Translations

insufficient in Italian is insufficiente
insufficient in Norwegian is utilstrekkelig


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