deficiency

deficiency is a 10-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. Face value is 21 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 21 · Words With Friends 23 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.
2. noun. lack of an adequate quantity or number

   "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"

   Synonyms: inadequacy, insufficiency

3. noun. the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

   "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"

   "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"

   Synonyms: lack, want

Synonyms

inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, want

Common word forms

deficiencies

Words from these letters

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