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insufficiency

/in-suh-fish-uhn-see/US // ˌɪn səˈfɪʃ ən si //UK // (ˌɪnsəˈfɪʃənsɪ) //

不足,不充分,不够用,不充足

Related Words

paucity贫乏,少数,少量,少量的deficiency不足之处,缺陷,缺点,不足inadequacy不足,不足之处,不足的地方,不够inability无能力,无能,无力,无能为力incompetency不称职,无能,不胜任,不合格dearth匮乏,缺少,贫乏,匮乏的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural in·suf·fi·cien·cies for 2.

    • : deficiency in amount, force, power, competence, or fitness; inadequacy: insufficiency of supplies.
    • : an instance of this.
    • : inability of an organ or other part of the body to function normally: cardiac insufficiency.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Synonyms
deficiency不足之处,缺陷,缺点,不足inadequacy不足,不足之处,不足的地方,不够paucity贫乏,少数,少量,少量的dearth匮乏,缺少,贫乏,匮乏的inability无能力,无能,无力,无能为力incompetency不称职,无能,不胜任,不合格

Examples

  • An increase is also noted in the uric-acid diathesis and in diseases accompanied by respiratory insufficiency.

  • The poverty of earlier days was the outcome of the insufficiency of human labor to meet the primal needs of human kind.

  • They too hastily confessed the insufficiency of arms and fortifications.

  • I believe that a few of the prisoners succumbed to disease and died because they had an insufficiency of nourishing food.

  • It was this insufficiency of rations which wrought the fatal dnouement of the glorious enterprise of Burke and Wills.

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