wanting :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

deficient, lacking

adj. inadequate in amount or degree; "a deficient education"; "deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested and found wanting"

lacking, nonexistent, missing

adj. not existing; "innovation has been sadly lacking"; "character development is missing from the book"

unsatisfactory

adj. not giving satisfaction; "shops should take back unsatisfactory goods"; "her performance proved to be unsatisfactory"; "life is becoming increasingly unsatifactory"; "our discussion was very unsatisfactory"

short, inadequate, poor

adj. not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"

lean, skimpy

adj. containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"

small, little

adj. limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group"

made-up, fictitious, fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictive, invented

adj. formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story"

incompetent, incapable, inadequate to, unequal to

adj. not meeting requirements; "unequal to the demands put upon him"

short-handed, short-staffed, undermanned, understaffed

adj. inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc.; "they're rather short-handed at the moment"; "overcrowded and understaffed hospitals"

out, gone, away

adj. not present; having left; "he's away right now"; "you must not allow a stranger into the house when your mother is away"; "everyone is gone now"; "the departed guests"

truant, awol

adj. absent without permission; "truant schoolboys"; "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week"

adequate

adj. (sometimes followed by `to') meeting the requirements especially of a task; "she had adequate training"; "her training was adequate"; "she was adequate to the job"

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