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Definition of inadequacy:
- The quality or state of being inadequate or insufficient; defectiveness; insufficiency; inadequateness.
Synonyms:
insufficiency, deficiency, ineffectuality, affect, inefficacy, ineffectualness, scarcity, strong, inadequateness, drawback, excess, underage, want, helplessness, scantness.
- impotence (part of speech: noun)
- inferiority (part of speech: noun)
- imperfection (part of speech: noun)
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insufficiency (part of speech: noun)
- miserliness,
- poverty,
- deficiency,
- shortfall,
- skimpiness,
- scantiness,
- meagerness,
- pittance,
- speck,
- famine,
- niggardliness,
- scarceness,
- sparseness,
- insufficiency,
- shortage,
- stinginess,
- flyspeck,
- dearth,
- paucity
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shortage (part of speech: noun)
- imperfection,
- arrears,
- shortage,
- insufficiency,
- lack,
- shortcoming,
- deficiency,
- deficit,
- shortfall
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inutility (part of speech: noun)
- futility,
- detrimentalness,
- ineffectiveness,
- good-for-nothingness,
- impracticality,
- unsuitability,
- failure,
- fruitlessness,
- uselessness
Usage examples:
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As the extent of his reading became gradually disclosed, however, her feeling of inadequacy grew, and she resolved in the future to make better use of her odd moments.
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He can relieve himself from such accountability only by showing that his equipment was inadequate and that the inadequacy was the result of causes beyond his control.
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This view was formerly supported by the author but the chloramine treatment at Ottawa and other places has demonstrated the inadequacy of this explanation.