Abundant
Abundant adjective - Being more than enough without being excessive.
Usage example: claimed that the needy were already receiving abundant help from both the government and charitable organizations
Nearby Words: abundance, abundantly
Lacking
Lacking adjective - Not coming up to an expected measure or meeting a particular need.
Usage example: we felt the afternoon television offerings were somewhat lacking in entertainment value
Both words in one sentence
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Lower-end frequencies don't trigger higher values nearly as much as upper-midrange signalsSongs for the Deaf is notably abundant in the former and lacking in the latter.
Source: Loudness War - Those Lacking Spines starts off as a deconstruction of all the abundant cliches in fanfiction, but soon it deconstructs everything in fanfiction.net... including the authors themselves.
Source: Deconstruction Fic
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