Definition of Insufficient

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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

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

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

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

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.
Pope Benedict XVI

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.
William Kingdon Clifford

Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered.
Franz Boas

However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.
Bob Filner

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.
Learned Hand

Insufficient Translations

insufficient in Italian is insufficiente
insufficient in Norwegian is utilstrekkelig

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