deficient
pronunciation
How to pronounce deficient in British English:
UK [dɪˈfɪʃnt]
How to pronounce deficient in American English:
US [dɪˈfɪʃnt]
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- Adjective:
- inadequate in amount or degree
- of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement
- falling short of some prescribed norm
Word Origin
- deficient
- deficient: [16] Deficient was acquired from Latin dēficient-, the present participial stem of dēficere ‘undo, fail, leave, be lacking’, a compound verb formed from the prefix dē- ‘away’ and facere ‘do, make’ (a parallel formation lies behind English defeat). The past participial stem of the Latin verb, dēfect-, produced English defect [15], while its third person present singular dēficit was borrowed by English as deficit.=> defeat, defect, deficit
- deficient (adj.)
- 1580s, from Latin deficientem (nominative deficiens), present participle of deficere "to desert, revolt, fail," from de- "down, away" (see de-) + facere "to do, perform" (see factitious).
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- 1. That addresses the problem of deficient regulation .
- 2. This , then , is a world of grossly deficient demand .
- 3. " Sirt1 deficient mice are impaired in all three memory paradigms compared to control mice , " tsai explained in an email .
- 4. First , as a result of the crisis , the developed world is suffering from chronically deficient demand .
- 5. Moreover , the chinese predilection for investment-led remedies for deficient demand means that most of the external benefit will accrue to energy and commodity producers .