deficit | Definition of deficit

Synonyms and Antonyms of deficit

a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number

a growing deficit in the number of hours devoted to sleep

Synonyms of deficit

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

Words Related to deficit

absence, omission

meagerness, poorness, skimpiness

necessity, need, privation

Near Antonyms of deficit

bountifulness, copiousness

excess, overabundance, oversupply, surfeit, surplus

Antonyms of deficit

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