deficiency | Definition of deficiency

Synonyms and Antonyms of deficiency

a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number

there is a deficiency of fresh food in the diet of many of the working poor

Synonyms of deficiency

crunch, dearth, deficit, drought (also drouth), failure, famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, lack, lacuna, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want

Words Related to deficiency

absence, omission

meagerness, poorness, skimpiness

necessity, need, privation

Near Antonyms of deficiency

bountifulness, copiousness

excess, overabundance, oversupply, surfeit, surplus

Antonyms of deficiency

abundance, adequacy, amplitude, opulence, plenitude, plenty, sufficiency, wealth