Deficient and Small

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Deficient adjective - Not coming up to an expected measure or meeting a particular need.

Usage example: too deficient in common sense to be trusted to stay by himself

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

Nearby Words: deficiency, deficit, deficiently

Small adjective - Of a size that is less than average.

Usage example: a small cat who never weighed more than five pounds

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Deficient and small are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Deficient" instead an adjective "Small".

Nearby Word: smallish

In practice, the efforts of the military government during 1940-1941 assured a satisfactory quantity of modern small arms and equipment, if the numbers or artillery and light tanks were still deficient.

Source: Useful Notes / The Bite of Dracula

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