Crossword-Solution: DEFICIENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Deficient | a. | Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment. |
We have 89 clues for the answer “DEFICIENT”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| lacking some essential thing or quality | 1 answer |
| inadequate in amount or degree | 1 answer |
| Less than complete | 1 answer |
| uncomplete | 6 answers |
| Beneath | 13 answers |
| perfunctory | 14 answers |
| underprovided | 15 answers |
| Miscalculated | 16 answers |
| undersupplied | 17 answers |
| Measly | 20 answers |
| Flawed | 29 answers |
| beggared | 31 answers |
| moderate capacity | 31 answers |
| Minus | 33 answers |
| retarded | 37 answers |
| Scarce | 38 answers |
| weeny | 39 answers |
| Ga-ga | 39 answers |
| schlock | 39 answers |
| Impecunious | 40 answers |
| Cracked | 40 answers |
| Penniless | 42 answers |
| Needy | 43 answers |
| Hard up | 44 answers |
| dirt poor | 48 answers |
| puny | 49 answers |
| Dotty | 52 answers |
| Defenceless | 52 answers |
| Sparse | 52 answers |
| Imbecile | 53 answers |
| insolvent | 54 answers |
| Amiss | 56 answers |
| Stunted | 57 answers |
| Obfuscate | 57 answers |
| Lilliputian | 59 answers |
| Weedy | 59 answers |
| fragile | 59 answers |
| frail | 60 answers |
| undersized | 60 answers |
| Defective | 60 answers |
| Scrawny | 61 answers |
| Bankrupt | 61 answers |
| Failing | 62 answers |
| Dumb | 62 answers |
| meagre | 63 answers |
| seedy | 63 answers |
| Pathetic | 65 answers |
| Broke | 65 answers |
| Daft | 66 answers |
| Idiotic | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEFICIENT (5)
Soon afterwards, observing that he was an animal altogether deficient in spirit, he assumed such boldness as to put a bridle in his mouth, and to let a child drive him.
Thanks to nuclear power, Lithuania is presently self-sufficient in electricity, exporting its surplus to Latvia and Belarus; the nuclear facilities inherited from the USSR, however, have come under world scrutiny as seriously deficient in safety standards.
THOMA showed an example of a page that had been made deficient by a variety of techniques, including a burn mark, coffee stains, and a yellow marker.
Because of nuclear power, Lithuania is presently self-sufficient in electricity, exporting its surplus to Latvia and Belarus; the nuclear facilities inherited from the USSR, however, have come under world scrutiny as seriously deficient in safety standards.
About three hundred years ago, it was decreed by the Chief Circle that, since women are deficient in Reason but abundant in Emotion, they ought no longer to be treated as rational, nor receive any mental education.
Quotes with DEFICIENT (3)
And if you say that's because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I'm disowning all three of you.
But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.
I went to interview a man with a high reputation for wisdom, because I felt that here if anywhere I should succeed in disproving the oracle and pointing out to my divine authority 'You said that I was the wisest of men, but here is a man who is wiser than I am.' Well, I gave a thorough examination to this person... and in conversation with him I formed the impression that although in many people's opinion, and especially in his own, he appeared to be wise, in fact he was not.…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NY Sun, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1998–2005).