deficient
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++de·fi·cient /dɪˈfɪʃənt/ adjective formal 1 ENOUGH#not containing or having enough of something 缺乏的，不足的 Women who are dieting can become iron deficient. 节食的女性有可能缺铁。deficient in patients who were deficient in vitamin C 缺乏维生素C的病人2 GOODnot good enough 不足的，有缺陷的 Our prisons are our most deficient social service. 我们的监狱是问题最大的社会机构。
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deficient• It will shock her, this assumed equivalence with a man so strikingly deficient.• The capacity of the ram inboard to accommodate her crew was fearfully deficient...• There is, even yet, a hangover of fear and superstition where the disables or mentally deficient are concerned.• As many as 2 million students leave school with deficient basic skills.• How would they react to a deficient health care system?• Gospel preaching will be seriously deficient if this dimension is omitted.• It was a delightful, careless room, untidy and rather deficient in comfortable chairs.• Vitamin E is available from so many food sources that no normal diet could possibly be deficient in it.• The investment appraisal published by the Southern board was deficient in many respects.• Your diet is deficient in vitamins.deficient in• a diet deficient in calciumOrigin deficient (1500-1600) Latin deficiens, present participle of deficere; → DEFECT1de·fi·cient adjectiveChineseSyllable
something of enough having Corpus not or containing
deficient
de‧fi‧cient /dɪˈfɪʃənt/
adjective formal1. not containing or having enough of something:
Women who are dieting can become iron deficient.
deficient in
patients who were deficient in vitamin C
2. not good enough:
Our prisons are our most deficient social service.
de‧fi‧cient /dɪˈfɪʃənt/
adjective formal1. not containing or having enough of something: deficient in
2. not good enough: