Deficient and Failed

Deficient

Deficient adjective - Lacking some necessary part.

Failed and deficient are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Failed" instead an adjective "Deficient".

Nearby Words: deficiency, deficit, deficiently

Failed

Definitions of Deficient not found.

Deficient and failed are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Deficient" instead an adjective "Failed".

Nearby Words: fail, failure, failing

Both words in one sentence

  • The colony failed because the tuber can't incubate the virus in soil deficient in thallium oxide (A later protector finds that the virus will grow in a sweet potato), and the humans developed intelligence on their own.
    Source: Lost Colony
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