Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. insufficient, deficient(adj)

   of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement

   "insufficient funds"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. insufficient(Adjective)

   Not sufficient.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Insufficient(adj)

   not sufficient; not enough; inadequate to any need, use, or purpose; as, the provisions are insufficient in quantity, and defective in quality

2. Insufficient(adj)

   wanting in strength, power, ability, capacity, or skill; incompetent; incapable; unfit; as, a person insufficient to discharge the duties of an office

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Insufficient

   in-suf-fish′ent, adj. not sufficient: deficient: unfit: incapable.—ns. Insuffic′iency, Insuffic′ience (rare).—adv. Insuffic′iently.

British National Corpus

1. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'insufficient' in Adjectives Frequency: #831

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of insufficient in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of insufficient in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

1. George Bernard Shaw:

   Virtue is insufficient temptation.

2. Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

   To greed, all nature is insufficient. - Hercules Oetaeus

3. Vikrant Parsai:

   You can’t judge a woman by her clothes, insufficient evidences!

4. Superior Court Judge Ronald Coen:

   I've heard nothing that would convince me that bail is insufficient.

5. George Santayana:

   Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.

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