Deficiently
Deficiently adverb - In an unsatisfactory way.
Usage example: the road to the mountain lodge is so deficiently marked that we had a terrible time finding it
Incorrectly and deficiently are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Incorrectly" instead an adverb "Deficiently".
Nearby Words: deficient, deficiency
Incorrectly
Incorrectly adverb - In a mistaken or inappropriate way.
Deficiently and incorrectly are semantically related. You can use "Deficiently" instead an adverb "Incorrectly".
Nearby Words: incorrect, incorrectness
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- wrong and deficiently
- wrong and incorrectly
- poorly and deficiently
- poorly and incorrectly
- badly and deficiently
- badly and incorrectly
- insufficiently and deficiently
- insufficiently and incorrectly
- carelessly and deficiently
- carelessly and incorrectly
- wrongly and deficiently
- wrongly and incorrectly
- inadequately and deficiently
- inadequately and incorrectly
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