Exact Match:
- deficient
- inadequate in amount or degree; "a deficient education"; "deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested and found wanting"
- falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing"
Synonyms:
- adulterated,
- amiss,
- arrested,
- bad,
- base,
- blemished,
- botched,
- bungling,
- callow,
- clumsy,
- damaged,
- defective,
- embryonic,
- erroneous,
- failing,
- fallible,
- faulty,
- flawed,
- found wanting,
- half-assed,
- haphazard,
- hit-and-miss,
- hit-or-miss,
- hypoplastic,
- immature,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- imprecise,
- impure,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in default,
- in short supply,
- in want of,
- inaccurate,
- inadequate,
- incompetent,
- incomplete,
- inexact,
- infant,
- inferior,
- infrequent,
- injured,
- insufficient,
- lacking,
- little,
- makeshift,
- maladroit,
- marred,
- mean,
- mediocre,
- messy,
- minus,
- missing,
- mixed,
- needing,
- not comparable,
- not enough,
- not in it,
- not perfect,
- off,
- out of it,
- part,
- partial,
- patchy,
- petty,
- promiscuous,
- rare,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scrappy,
- scrimpy,
- shabby,
- short,
- short of,
- shy,
- sketchy,
- skimpy,
- slipshod,
- slipshoddy,
- sloppy,
- slovenly,
- sluttish,
- small,
- too little,
- trivial,
- uncommon,
- underdeveloped,
- undeveloped,
- unequal to,
- uneven,
- unfinished,
- unperfected,
- unqualified,
- unreached,
- unsatisfactory,
- unsatisfying,
- unskillful,
- unsound,
- unsufficing,
- unthorough,
- untidy,
- wanting
Related Words:
- base,
- deficient,
- disappointing,
- falling short,
- hors de combat,
- imperfect,
- inadequate,
- incompetent,
- insufficient,
- little,
- maladroit,
- mean,
- mediocre,
- not comparable,
- not in it,
- obsolete,
- off the field,
- out of commission,
- out of gear,
- out of it,
- petty,
- second best,
- shabby,
- small,
- tantalizing,
- teasing,
- trivial,
- unsatisfactory,
- unskillful
- defective,
- deficient,
- disappointing,
- disheartening,
- displeasing,
- dissatisfactory,
- failing,
- found wanting,
- imperfect,
- inadequate,
- incommensurate,
- incompetent,
- incomplete,
- insufficient,
- lacking,
- not enough,
- not good enough,
- too little,
- unequal to,
- unfulfilling,
- ungratifying,
- unqualified,
- unsatisfactory,
- unsufficing,
- wanting
- adulterated,
- blemished,
- damaged,
- defective,
- deficient,
- erroneous,
- fallible,
- faulty,
- found wanting,
- immature,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- imprecise,
- impure,
- inaccurate,
- inadequate,
- incomplete,
- inexact,
- lacking,
- makeshift,
- mediocre,
- mixed,
- not perfect,
- off,
- partial,
- patchy,
- short,
- sketchy,
- undeveloped,
- uneven,
- unfinished,
- unsound,
- unthorough,
- wanting
- at a disadvantage,
- at the nadir,
- bankrupt in,
- bare of,
- below,
- below the mark,
- bereft of,
- deficient,
- denuded of,
- deprived of,
- destitute of,
- devoid of,
- empty of,
- for want of,
- forlorn of,
- in default of,
- in the gutter,
- in want of,
- inadequate,
- inferior,
- insufficient,
- lacking,
- least,
- least of all,
- less,
- minus,
- missing,
- needing,
- out of,
- out of pocket,
- scant of,
- short,
- shy,
- shy of,
- unblessed with,
- under,
- under par,
- unpossessed of,
- unreached,
- void of,
- wanting
- arrested,
- at a premium,
- callow,
- defective,
- deficient,
- embryonic,
- failing,
- hypoplastic,
- immature,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in default,
- inadequate,
- incomplete,
- infant,
- lacking,
- missing,
- needing,
- out of print,
- out of season,
- out of stock,
- part,
- partial,
- patchy,
- rare,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scrappy,
- short,
- shy,
- sketchy,
- sparse,
- uncommon,
- underdeveloped,
- undeveloped,
- wanting
- mentally retarded
collapse - people collectively who are mentally retarded; "he started a school for the retarded" related words >
- arrested,
- babbling,
- backward,
- blithering,
- burbling,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazy,
- cretinistic,
- cretinous,
- dithering,
- driveling,
- drooling,
- half-baked,
- half-witted,
- idiotic,
- imbecile,
- imbecilic,
- maundering,
- mentally defective,
- mentally deficient,
- mentally handicapped,
- mongoloid,
- moronic,
- not all there,
- retarded,
- simple,
- simpleminded,
- simpletonian,
- slobbering,
- subnormal
- mongoloid
collapse
- a person suffering from Down syndrome (no longer used technically in this sense)
- a member of the Mongoloid race
- of or relating to or suffering from Down syndrome;
- of or pertaining to or characteristic of one of the traditional racial division of humankind including especially peoples of central and eastern Asia
- characteristic of or resembling a Mongol; "the mongoloid epicanthic fold" related words >
- arrested,
- babbling,
- backward,
- blithering,
- burbling,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazy,
- cretinistic,
- cretinous,
- dithering,
- driveling,
- drooling,
- half-baked,
- half-witted,
- idiotic,
- imbecile,
- imbecilic,
- maundering,
- mentally defective,
- mentally deficient,
- mentally handicapped,
- mentally retarded,
- moronic,
- not all there,
- retarded,
- simple,
- simpleminded,
- simpletonian,
- slobbering,
- subnormal
- adulterated,
- blemished,
- damaged,
- defective,
- deficient,
- erroneous,
- failing,
- fallible,
- faulty,
- immature,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- imprecise,
- impure,
- inaccurate,
- inadequate,
- incompetent,
- incomplete,
- inexact,
- insufficient,
- lacking,
- makeshift,
- mediocre,
- mixed,
- not enough,
- not perfect,
- off,
- partial,
- patchy,
- short,
- sketchy,
- too little,
- undeveloped,
- unequal to,
- uneven,
- unfinished,
- unperfected,
- unqualified,
- unsatisfactory,
- unsatisfying,
- unsound,
- unsufficing,
- unthorough,
- wanting
- amateurish
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- lacking professional skill or expertise; "a very amateurish job"; "inexpert but conscientious efforts"; "an unskilled painting" related words >
- amateur,
- clumsy,
- crude,
- dabbling,
- defective,
- deficient,
- dilettante,
- dilettantish,
- faulty,
- flawed,
- green,
- half-assed,
- half-baked,
- half-cocked,
- immature,
- jackleg,
- raw,
- sciolistic,
- semiskilled,
- shallow,
- smattering,
- sophomoric,
- superficial,
- unaccomplished,
- unbusinesslike,
- uncoached,
- unendowed,
- unfinished,
- ungifted,
- uninitiated,
- unpolished,
- unprepared,
- unprimed,
- unprofessional,
- unschooled,
- unskilled,
- untalented,
- untaught,
- untrained,
- untutored
- bare,
- barren,
- bony,
- broad,
- deficient,
- emaciated,
- exiguous,
- gaunt,
- general,
- half-starved,
- inadequate,
- indefinite,
- infertile,
- insufficient,
- lean,
- loose,
- measly,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- piddling,
- plain,
- poor,
- puny,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- scrimpy,
- simple,
- simplified,
- skimpy,
- skinny,
- spare,
- sparse,
- starving,
- thin,
- trifling,
- unadorned,
- underfed,
- undernourished,
- unelaborate,
- unembellished,
- unfruitful,
- unproductive,
- vague
- unsatisfactory
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- not giving satisfaction; "shops should take back unsatisfactory goods"; "her performance proved to be unsatisfactory"; "life is becoming increasingly unsatifactory"; "our discussion was very unsatisfactory" related words >
- amiss,
- bad,
- bum,
- crappy,
- defective,
- deficient,
- disappointing,
- disheartening,
- displeasing,
- dissatisfactory,
- failing,
- falling short,
- faulty,
- flawed,
- found wanting,
- imperfect,
- inadequate,
- inappropriate,
- incommensurate,
- incompetent,
- incomplete,
- inferior,
- insufficient,
- lacking,
- not enough,
- not good enough,
- poor,
- punk,
- rotten,
- second best,
- tantalizing,
- teasing,
- too little,
- unacceptable,
- unequal to,
- unfulfilling,
- ungratifying,
- unqualified,
- unsatisfying,
- unsufficing,
- unsuitable,
- unworthy,
- up,
- wanting,
- weak,
- wrong
- destitute
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- poor enough to need help from others related words >
- badly off,
- bankrupt,
- bereft of,
- broke,
- broken,
- busted,
- deficient,
- depleted,
- deprived of,
- destitute of,
- devoid of,
- divested,
- down-and-out,
- drained,
- empty,
- exhausted,
- failed,
- fortuneless,
- hard up,
- homeless,
- impecunious,
- impoverished,
- in need,
- in receivership,
- in the gutter,
- in the red,
- in want,
- indigent,
- innocent,
- insolvent,
- landless,
- moneyless,
- necessitous,
- needy,
- on the rocks,
- out of funds,
- penniless,
- penurious,
- poor,
- poverty,
- poverty-stricken,
- propertyless,
- ruined,
- stripped,
- void,
- without,
- without a sou
- minus
collapse
- involving disadvantage or harm; "minus (or negative) factors"
- on the negative side or lower end of a scale; "minus 5 degrees"; "a grade of B minus" related words >
- barring,
- bereaved,
- bereaved of,
- bereft,
- cut off,
- decrement,
- deduction,
- deficient,
- denuded,
- deprived of,
- devoid,
- discounting,
- divested,
- except,
- excepting,
- exception taken of,
- excluding,
- exclusive of,
- existless,
- from,
- inadequate,
- inferior,
- insufficient,
- lacking,
- leaving out,
- less,
- minuend,
- missing,
- negative,
- nonexistent,
- not counting,
- null,
- off,
- out of,
- parted from,
- plus,
- positive,
- robbed of,
- sans,
- save,
- shorn of,
- short,
- short of,
- stripped of,
- subtrahend,
- unexisting,
- unreached,
- vacuous,
- void,
- wanting,
- without,
- without being
- fallible
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- likely to fail or make errors; "everyone is fallible to some degree"
- having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only a fallible human"; "frail humanity" related words >
- adulterated,
- blemished,
- careless,
- damaged,
- defective,
- deficient,
- errable,
- errant,
- erroneous,
- error-prone,
- faulty,
- found wanting,
- heedless,
- immature,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- imprecise,
- impure,
- inaccurate,
- inadequate,
- incomplete,
- inexact,
- lacking,
- liable to error,
- makeshift,
- mediocre,
- mixed,
- not perfect,
- off,
- open to error,
- partial,
- patchy,
- short,
- sketchy,
- undeveloped,
- uneven,
- unfinished,
- unperfected,
- unsound,
- unthorough,
- wanting
- absolute,
- arrested,
- babbling,
- backward,
- blasted,
- blessed,
- burbling,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazy,
- cretinistic,
- cretinous,
- dithering,
- downright,
- driveling,
- drooling,
- gross,
- half-baked,
- half-witted,
- idiotic,
- imbecile,
- imbecilic,
- maundering,
- mentally defective,
- mentally deficient,
- mentally handicapped,
- mentally retarded,
- mongoloid,
- moronic,
- not all there,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- positive,
- rank,
- retarded,
- simple,
- simpleminded,
- simpletonian,
- slobbering,
- subnormal
- blighted,
- bungled,
- bungling,
- butchered,
- clumsy,
- deficient,
- destroyed,
- fumbled,
- half-assed,
- haphazard,
- hit-and-miss,
- hit-or-miss,
- ill-advised,
- ill-considered,
- ill-contrived,
- ill-devised,
- ill-done,
- ill-executed,
- ill-managed,
- impolitic,
- marred,
- messy,
- misconducted,
- misdirected,
- misguided,
- mismanaged,
- muffed,
- murdered,
- negligent,
- promiscuous,
- ruined,
- slipshod,
- slipshoddy,
- sloppy,
- slovenly,
- sluttish,
- spoiled,
- spoilt,
- untidy,
- wrecked
- beat-up,
- bedraggled,
- blowzy,
- botched,
- bungling,
- careless,
- chintzy,
- clumsy,
- deficient,
- dilapidated,
- drabbletailed,
- draggled,
- draggletailed,
- frowzy,
- frumpish,
- frumpy,
- grubby,
- half-assed,
- haphazard,
- hit-and-miss,
- hit-or-miss,
- in rags,
- informal,
- loose,
- lumpen,
- messy,
- mussy,
- negligent,
- poky,
- promiscuous,
- ragged,
- raggedy,
- ruinous,
- scraggly,
- seedy,
- shabby,
- shoddy,
- slack,
- slatternly,
- slipshod,
- slipshoddy,
- sloppy,
- slovenly,
- sordid,
- squalid,
- tacky,
- tattered,
- unkempt,
- unneat,
- unsightly,
- untidy
- scarce
collapse
- deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"
- not enough; hard to find; "meat was scarce during the war" related words >
- almost unheard-of,
- at a premium,
- barely,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- curtailed,
- deficient,
- exiguous,
- failing,
- few,
- hardly,
- in short supply,
- inadequate,
- infrequent,
- insufficient,
- lacking,
- meager,
- miserly,
- niggardly,
- occasional,
- out of print,
- out of season,
- out of stock,
- piddling,
- poor,
- rare,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarcely,
- scattered,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- seldom,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- shortened,
- shy,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- slim,
- slow,
- sparse,
- sporadic,
- spotty,
- sprinkled,
- stingy,
- thin,
- tight,
- truncated,
- uncommon,
- unfrequent,
- unique,
- unusual,
- wanting
- arrested
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- having development checked or reversed; "arrested tuberculosis" related words >
- babbling,
- back,
- backward,
- behind,
- behindhand,
- belated,
- blithering,
- blocked,
- bridled,
- burbling,
- callow,
- caught,
- charmed,
- checked,
- coarse,
- constrained,
- controlled,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazy,
- cretinistic,
- cretinous,
- crude,
- curbed,
- defective,
- deficient,
- delayed,
- delayed-action,
- detained,
- dithering,
- driveling,
- drooling,
- embryonic,
- enchanted,
- enthralled,
- failing,
- fascinated,
- fixed,
- gripped,
- guarded,
- half-baked,
- half-witted,
- held,
- held up,
- hung up,
- hypnotized,
- hypoplastic,
- idiotic,
- imbecile,
- imbecilic,
- immature,
- impeded,
- in a bind,
- in abeyance,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in check,
- in default,
- in embryo,
- in leading strings,
- in ovo,
- in remission,
- in short supply,
- in the rough,
- inadequate,
- incomplete,
- infant,
- inhibited,
- jammed,
- lacking,
- late,
- latish,
- maundering,
- mentally defective,
- mentally deficient,
- mentally handicapped,
- mentally retarded,
- mesmerized,
- missing,
- mongoloid,
- moratory,
- moronic,
- needing,
- never on time,
- not all there,
- obstructed,
- on leash,
- overdue,
- oversimple,
- part,
- partial,
- patchy,
- pent-up,
- rapt,
- reductionistic,
- reductive,
- restrained,
- retarded,
- rough,
- roughcast,
- roughhewn,
- rude,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrappy,
- set back,
- short,
- shy,
- simple,
- simpleminded,
- simpletonian,
- simplistic,
- sketchy,
- slobbering,
- slow,
- slowed down,
- spellbound,
- stopped,
- stunted,
- subnormal,
- tardy,
- unblown,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- uncut,
- under control,
- under discipline,
- under restraint,
- underdeveloped,
- undeveloped,
- unfashioned,
- unfinished,
- unformed,
- unhewn,
- unlabored,
- unlicked,
- unpolished,
- unprocessed,
- unpunctual,
- unready,
- unrefined,
- untimely,
- untreated,
- unworked,
- unwrought,
- wanting
- babbling
collapse
- continuous low murmuring sound; as especially of water; "a babbling brook" related words >
- arrested,
- backward,
- blithering,
- bubbling,
- burbling,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazy,
- cretinistic,
- cretinous,
- delirious,
- dithering,
- dizzy,
- driveling,
- drooling,
- giddy,
- guggling,
- gurgling,
- half-baked,
- half-witted,
- idiotic,
- imbecile,
- imbecilic,
- incoherent,
- lapping,
- lightheaded,
- maundering,
- mentally defective,
- mentally deficient,
- mentally handicapped,
- mentally retarded,
- mongoloid,
- moronic,
- not all there,
- off,
- plashing,
- rambling,
- ranting,
- raving,
- retarded,
- rippling,
- simple,
- simpleminded,
- simpletonian,
- slobbering,
- sloshing,
- splashing,
- subnormal,
- swishing,
- trilling,
- wandering
- subnormal
collapse
- a person of less than normal intelligence
- below normal or average; "after the floods the harvests were subnormal"; "subnormal intelligence" related words >
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- amorphous,
- anomalistic,
- anomalous,
- arrested,
- babbling,
- backward,
- blithering,
- burbling,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazy,
- cretinistic,
- cretinous,
- deviative,
- different,
- dithering,
- divergent,
- driveling,
- drooling,
- eccentric,
- erratic,
- formless,
- half-baked,
- half-witted,
- heteroclite,
- heteromorphic,
- idiotic,
- imbecile,
- imbecilic,
- irregular,
- low,
- maundering,
- mentally defective,
- mentally deficient,
- mentally handicapped,
- mentally retarded,
- mongoloid,
- moronic,
- not all there,
- retarded,
- shapeless,
- simple,
- simpleminded,
- simpletonian,
- slobbering,
- stray,
- straying,
- subpar,
- unnatural,
- wandering
- amateur,
- amateurish,
- artless,
- botched,
- bungling,
- clumsy,
- dabbling,
- defective,
- deficient,
- dilettante,
- dilettantish,
- half-baked,
- half-cocked,
- haphazard,
- hit-and-miss,
- hit-or-miss,
- immature,
- inadept,
- inadequate,
- inapt,
- inattentive,
- incomplete,
- inefficient,
- inept,
- inexpert,
- insufficient,
- lacking,
- mediocre,
- messy,
- pedestrian,
- poor,
- promiscuous,
- sciolistic,
- shallow,
- skill-less,
- slipshod,
- slipshoddy,
- sloppy,
- slovenly,
- sluttish,
- smattering,
- sophomoric,
- superficial,
- thoughtless,
- unapt,
- undeft,
- undexterous,
- undextrous,
- unfacile,
- unintelligent,
- unproficient,
- unskillful,
- untidy,
- wanting
- abnormal,
- bereft of reason,
- brainsick,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- daft,
- deluded,
- demented,
- deprived of reason,
- deranged,
- disoriented,
- distraught,
- flighty,
- hallucinated,
- insane,
- irrational,
- loco,
- lunatic,
- mad,
- maddened,
- manic,
- mazed,
- mental,
- mentally deficient,
- meshuggah,
- non compos,
- non compos mentis,
- not all there,
- not right,
- odd,
- of unsound mind,
- off,
- psycho,
- queer,
- reasonless,
- senseless,
- sick,
- stark-mad,
- stark-staring mad,
- strange,
- tetched,
- touched,
- unbalanced,
- unhinged,
- unsane,
- unsettled,
- unsound,
- wandering,
- witless
- abnormal,
- bereft of reason,
- brainsick,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- daft,
- deluded,
- demented,
- deprived of reason,
- deranged,
- disoriented,
- distraught,
- flighty,
- hallucinated,
- insane,
- irrational,
- loco,
- lunatic,
- mad,
- maddened,
- manic,
- mazed,
- mental,
- mentally deficient,
- meshuggah,
- moon-struck,
- non compos,
- not all there,
- not right,
- odd,
- of unsound mind,
- off,
- psycho,
- queer,
- reasonless,
- senseless,
- sick,
- stark-mad,
- stark-staring mad,
- strange,
- tetched,
- touched,
- unbalanced,
- unhinged,
- unsane,
- unsettled,
- unsound,
- wandering,
- witless
- abnormal,
- bereft of reason,
- brainsick,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- daft,
- deluded,
- demented,
- deprived of reason,
- deranged,
- disoriented,
- distraught,
- flighty,
- hallucinated,
- insane,
- irrational,
- loco,
- lunatic,
- mad,
- maddened,
- manic,
- mazed,
- mental,
- mentally deficient,
- meshuggah,
- moon-struck,
- non compos,
- non compos mentis,
- not all there,
- not right,
- odd,
- of unsound mind,
- off,
- psycho,
- queer,
- reasonless,
- senseless,
- sick,
- stark-mad,
- stark-staring mad,
- strange,
- touched,
- unbalanced,
- unhinged,
- unsane,
- unsettled,
- unsound,
- wandering,
- witless
- devoid
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- completely lacking related words >
- bankrupt in,
- bare,
- bare of,
- barren,
- bereft of,
- bland,
- blank,
- bleached,
- characterless,
- clear,
- deficient,
- denuded of,
- deprived of,
- destitute,
- destitute of,
- devoid of,
- empty,
- empty of,
- existless,
- featureless,
- for want of,
- forlorn of,
- hollow,
- in default of,
- in want of,
- inane,
- innocent,
- insipid,
- lacking,
- minus,
- missing,
- needing,
- negative,
- nonexistent,
- null,
- null and void,
- out of,
- out of pocket,
- scant of,
- short,
- short of,
- shy,
- shy of,
- unblessed with,
- unexisting,
- unpossessed of,
- unrelieved,
- vacant,
- vacuous,
- void,
- void of,
- wanting,
- white,
- with nothing inside,
- without being,
- without content
- insufficient
collapse
- of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement; "insufficient funds" related words >
- asymmetric,
- base,
- defective,
- deficient,
- disappointing,
- disheartening,
- disparate,
- displeasing,
- disproportionate,
- dissatisfactory,
- failing,
- found wanting,
- half-assed,
- ill-matched,
- ill-sorted,
- imperfect,
- inadequate,
- incommensurate,
- incompetent,
- incomplete,
- inferior,
- irregular,
- lacking,
- little,
- maladroit,
- mean,
- mediocre,
- minus,
- mismatched,
- not comparable,
- not enough,
- not good enough,
- not in it,
- odd,
- out of it,
- out of proportion,
- petty,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- shabby,
- short,
- short of,
- shy,
- skew,
- skewed,
- small,
- too little,
- trivial,
- unequal,
- unequal to,
- uneven,
- unfulfilling,
- ungratifying,
- unqualified,
- unreached,
- unsatisfactory,
- unsatisfying,
- unskillful,
- unsufficing,
- wanting
- airy,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- blemished,
- cut,
- damaged,
- defective,
- deficient,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- erroneous,
- ethereal,
- fallible,
- faulty,
- fine,
- flimsy,
- found wanting,
- gaseous,
- immature,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- imprecise,
- impure,
- inaccurate,
- inadequate,
- incomplete,
- inexact,
- insubstantial,
- lacking,
- makeshift,
- mediocre,
- mixed,
- not perfect,
- off,
- partial,
- patchy,
- rare,
- rarefied,
- reduced,
- short,
- sketchy,
- slight,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thinned,
- thinned-out,
- uncompact,
- uncompressed,
- undeveloped,
- uneven,
- unfinished,
- unperfected,
- unsound,
- unsubstantial,
- unthorough,
- vaporous,
- wanting,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- windy
- absent
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- lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"
- not in a specified place physically or mentally
- go away or leave; "He absented himself" related words >
- absconded,
- absentminded,
- absorbed,
- abstracted,
- away,
- bemused,
- castle-building,
- daydreaming,
- daydreamy,
- deficient,
- deleted,
- departed,
- disappeared,
- distrait,
- dreaming,
- dreamy,
- drowsing,
- ecstatic,
- elsewhere,
- engrossed,
- faraway,
- forgetful,
- gone,
- half-awake,
- heedless,
- in a reverie,
- in the clouds,
- keep away from,
- lacking,
- lost,
- lost in thought,
- meditative,
- missing,
- mooning,
- moonraking,
- museful,
- musing,
- napping,
- no longer present,
- nodding,
- nonattendant,
- nonexistent,
- not found,
- not present,
- oblivious,
- off,
- omitted,
- out,
- out of sight,
- pensive,
- pipe-dreaming,
- preoccupied,
- rapt,
- somewhere else,
- stargazing,
- subtracted,
- taken away,
- taken up,
- transported,
- unconscious,
- vanished,
- wanting,
- withdraw from,
- woolgathering,
- wrapped in thought
- abnormal,
- bereft of reason,
- brainsick,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- daft,
- deluded,
- demented,
- deprived of reason,
- deranged,
- disoriented,
- distraught,
- flighty,
- fruity,
- hallucinated,
- insane,
- irrational,
- lunatic,
- mad,
- maddened,
- maniac,
- manic,
- mazed,
- mental,
- mentally deficient,
- meshuggah,
- mindless,
- moon-struck,
- non compos,
- non compos mentis,
- not all there,
- not right,
- nuts,
- odd,
- of unsound mind,
- off,
- psycho,
- queer,
- reasonless,
- senseless,
- sick,
- stark-mad,
- stark-staring mad,
- strange,
- tetched,
- touched,
- unbalanced,
- unhinged,
- unsane,
- unsettled,
- unsound,
- wandering,
- witless
- abnormal,
- bereft of reason,
- brainsick,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- daft,
- delirious,
- deluded,
- deprived of reason,
- deranged,
- disoriented,
- distraught,
- flighty,
- frenzied,
- hallucinated,
- hysterical,
- insane,
- irrational,
- loco,
- lunatic,
- mad,
- maddened,
- maniac,
- manic,
- mazed,
- mental,
- mentally deficient,
- meshuggah,
- moon-struck,
- non compos,
- non compos mentis,
- not all there,
- not right,
- odd,
- of unsound mind,
- off,
- psycho,
- queer,
- reasonless,
- senseless,
- sick,
- stark-mad,
- stark-staring mad,
- strange,
- tetched,
- touched,
- unbalanced,
- unhinged,
- unsane,
- unsettled,
- unsound,
- wandering,
- witless
- appetitive,
- arrested,
- bankrupt in,
- bare of,
- bereft of,
- callow,
- defective,
- deficient,
- denuded of,
- deprived of,
- desiderative,
- desireful,
- desiring,
- desirous,
- destitute of,
- devoid of,
- eager,
- embryonic,
- empty of,
- failing,
- for want of,
- forlorn of,
- hoping,
- hormic,
- hypoplastic,
- immature,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in default,
- in default of,
- in short supply,
- in want of,
- inadequate,
- incomplete,
- infant,
- lacking,
- lascivious,
- libidinal,
- libidinous,
- lickerish,
- lustful,
- missing,
- optative,
- out of,
- out of pocket,
- part,
- partial,
- patchy,
- scant,
- scant of,
- scanty,
- scrappy,
- short,
- short of,
- shy,
- shy of,
- sketchy,
- tempted,
- unblessed with,
- underdeveloped,
- undeveloped,
- unpossessed of,
- void of,
- wanting,
- wishing
- underdeveloped
collapse
- (of a photograph) lacking in contrast because it was left in the developer for less than the required time
- not yet fully developed related words >
- arrested,
- backward,
- behindhand,
- callow,
- coarse,
- crude,
- defective,
- deficient,
- embryonic,
- failing,
- hypoplastic,
- immature,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in default,
- in embryo,
- in ovo,
- in short supply,
- in the rough,
- inadequate,
- incomplete,
- infant,
- lacking,
- missing,
- needing,
- oversimple,
- part,
- partial,
- patchy,
- reductionistic,
- reductive,
- rough,
- roughcast,
- roughhewn,
- rude,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrappy,
- short,
- shy,
- simplistic,
- sketchy,
- stunted,
- unblown,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- uncut,
- undeveloped,
- unfashioned,
- unfinished,
- unformed,
- unhewn,
- unlabored,
- unlicked,
- unpolished,
- unprocessed,
- unprogressive,
- unrefined,
- untreated,
- unworked,
- unwrought,
- wanting
- abnormal,
- bereft of reason,
- brainsick,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- daft,
- deluded,
- demented,
- deprived of reason,
- deranged,
- disarranged,
- disjointed,
- dislocated,
- disoriented,
- displaced,
- distraught,
- flighty,
- hallucinated,
- insane,
- irrational,
- loco,
- lunatic,
- mad,
- maddened,
- manic,
- mazed,
- mental,
- mentally deficient,
- meshuggah,
- moon-struck,
- non compos,
- non compos mentis,
- not all there,
- not right,
- odd,
- of unsound mind,
- off,
- out,
- out of gear,
- out of joint,
- psycho,
- queer,
- reasonless,
- senseless,
- sick,
- stark-mad,
- stark-staring mad,
- strange,
- tetched,
- touched,
- unbalanced,
- unjointed,
- unsane,
- unsettled,
- unsound,
- wandering,
- witless
- Lenten,
- Spartan,
- abstemious,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- deficient,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- exiguous,
- failing,
- frugal,
- impoverished,
- inadequate,
- infrequent,
- insufficient,
- jejune,
- lean,
- limited,
- meager,
- mean,
- miserly,
- narrow,
- niggardly,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- piddling,
- poor,
- puny,
- rare,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scattered,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- shy,
- skimp,
- skimping,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- spare,
- sparing,
- sparse,
- spotty,
- sprinkled,
- starvation,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- thin,
- tight,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- wanting,
- watered,
- watery
- defective
collapse
- markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior; "defective speech"
- having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective" related words >
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- adulterated,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- ament,
- amiss,
- amputee,
- arrested,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- awry,
- backward,
- beside the mark,
- blemished,
- born fool,
- broken,
- callow,
- checked,
- cicatrized,
- clot,
- congenital idiot,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- cretin,
- cripple,
- damaged,
- debased,
- deceptive,
- defaced,
- deficient,
- deformed,
- deformity,
- delusive,
- deranged,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- disfigured,
- disordered,
- distorted,
- disturbed,
- embryonic,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- exceptional,
- failing,
- fallacious,
- fallible,
- false,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- flawed,
- found wanting,
- golem,
- half-assed,
- half-wit,
- handicapped person,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- hypoplastic,
- idiot,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- imbecile,
- immature,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- imprecise,
- impure,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in default,
- in short supply,
- inaccurate,
- inadequate,
- incapable,
- incompetent,
- incomplete,
- inexact,
- infant,
- injured,
- insufficient,
- juggins,
- keloidal,
- kinked,
- lacking,
- makeshift,
- marred,
- mediocre,
- mentally deficient,
- missing,
- mixed,
- mongoloid idiot,
- moron,
- natural,
- natural idiot,
- natural-born fool,
- needing,
- not enough,
- not perfect,
- not right,
- not true,
- off,
- off the track,
- on the blink,
- on the fritz,
- out,
- out of order,
- paralytic,
- paraplegic,
- part,
- partial,
- patchy,
- peccant,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- pimpled,
- pimply,
- quadriplegic,
- retarded,
- scabbed,
- scabby,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarified,
- scarred,
- scrappy,
- self-contradictory,
- short,
- shy,
- sick,
- simp,
- simple,
- simpleton,
- sketchy,
- split,
- straying,
- subnormal,
- the crippled,
- the handicapped,
- too little,
- twisted,
- underdeveloped,
- undeveloped,
- unequal to,
- uneven,
- unfactual,
- unfinished,
- unhealthy,
- unorthodox,
- unperfected,
- unproved,
- unqualified,
- unsatisfactory,
- unsatisfying,
- unsettled,
- unsound,
- unsufficing,
- unthorough,
- untrue,
- vitiated,
- wanting,
- warped,
- wide,
- wrong
- alert,
- artless,
- bad,
- base,
- black,
- criminal,
- deficient,
- evil,
- half-assed,
- ill,
- imperfect,
- improper,
- inaccurate,
- inadept,
- inadequate,
- inapt,
- inattentive,
- inauspicious,
- incapable,
- incompetent,
- inefficient,
- inept,
- inexpedient,
- inexpert,
- inferior,
- insufficient,
- invalid,
- little,
- maladroit,
- malevolent,
- mean,
- mediocre,
- not comparable,
- not in it,
- open-eyed,
- out of it,
- peccant,
- pedestrian,
- petty,
- poor,
- shabby,
- sinful,
- sinister,
- skill-less,
- small,
- thoughtless,
- trivial,
- unapt,
- undeft,
- undexterous,
- undextrous,
- unfacile,
- unfavorable,
- unfitted,
- unhandy,
- unhealthy,
- unintelligent,
- unkind,
- unpleasant,
- unproficient,
- unqualified,
- unready,
- unskilled,
- unsleeping,
- untoward,
- unworkmanlike,
- vicious,
- vigilant,
- wakeful,
- wicked,
- wide-awake,
- wrong
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