Deficient
Incorrect
Incorrect adjective - Having an opinion that does not agree with truth or the facts.
Deficient and incorrect are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Deficient" instead an adjective "Incorrect".
Nearby Words: incorrectness, incorrectly
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- inapt and deficient
- inapt and incorrect
- imperfect and deficient
- imperfect and incorrect
- unsuitable and deficient
- unsuitable and incorrect
- bad and deficient
- bad and incorrect
- defective and deficient
- defective and incorrect
- faulty and deficient
- faulty and incorrect
- unsatisfactory and deficient
- unsatisfactory and incorrect
Both words in one sentence
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Politically Incorrect Villain: Park and the Lee twins, who routinely ridicule the hearing-impaired children in their care, and claim their physical disabilities cause them to be "mentally deficient" or "not like normal people".
Source: Film / The Crucible
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