Deficient
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Crossword Answers
3 letters
SHY
A quick throw; "he gave the ball a shy to the first baseman"
4 letters
POOR
People without possessions or wealth (considered as a group); "the urban poor need assistance"
5 letters
SCANT
Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"
SHORT
(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory"
MINUS
An arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated; "the subtraction of three from four leaves one"; "four minus three equals one"
6 letters
MEAGRE
Deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"
SCARCE
Only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats
7 letters
WANTING
Nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking"
LACKING
Inadequate in amount or degree; "a deficient education"; "deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested and found wanting"
8 letters
INFERIOR
One of lesser rank or station or quality
11 letters
SUBSTANDARD
Falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing"
12 letters
INSUFFICIENT
Of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement; "insufficient funds"