inadequacy
/ɪnˈadɪkwəsi
/noun (plural inadequacies) [mass noun]
1The state or quality of being inadequate; lack of the quantity or quality required: the inadequacy of available resources [count noun]: the inadequacies of the present system...
- The cause of famine, consequently, is not an inadequacy of food.
- A further consequence of the strength of conservative morality is the inadequacy of sex education.
- More demanding tasks can soon show the inadequacy of low amounts of RAM.
Synonyms
insufficiency, deficiency, scantness, scarcity, scarceness, sparseness, dearth, paucity, poverty, shortage, want, lack, undersupply;
paltriness, meagreness, niggardliness;
sketchiness, incompleteness, limitedness, restrictedness
rare exiguity, exiguousness
incompetence, incapability, unfitness, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficiency, inefficacy, inexpertness, lack of skill, lack of proficiency, ineptness, uselessness, hopelessness, impotence, powerlessness;
amateurishness, inferiority, unsatisfactoriness, substandardness
shortcoming, defect, fault, failing, weakness, weak point, limitation, flaw, imperfection, Achilles heel;
loophole
1.1Inability to deal with a situation or with life: her feelings of personal inadequacy...
- Any thoughtful president must surely have infinitely greater moments of inwardly perceived inadequacy.
- Like an avenging angel, the stranger forces the menfolk to confront their own inadequacies.
- A gaggle of girls walked past Jay tittering at his inadequacies.
- unfamiliar
- unfamiliarity
- unfancied
- unfarmed
- unfashionable
- unfashionableness
- unfashionably
- unfashioned
- unfasten
- unfathered
- unfatherliness
- unfatherly
- unfathomable
- unfathomableness
- unfathomably
- unfathomed
- unfavorable
- unfavorably
- unfavorite
- unfavourable
- unfavourableness
- unfavourably
- unfavourite
- unfazed
- unfeasibility