inadequacy

Nouns

  • (n) lack of an adequate quantity or number
    • the inadequacy of unemployment benefits
    deficiency, insufficiency,
  • (n) a lack of competence
    • pointed out the insufficiencies in my report
    • juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents
    insufficiency,
  • (n) unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate inadequateness,

Synonyms

deficiency insufficiency inadequateness

Antonyms

adequacy sufficiency adequateness

Words of close approximity

inadequate