Insufficient
Insufficient adjective - Not coming up to an expected measure or meeting a particular need.
Usage example: there's been an insufficient number of volunteers for the job, so I'll have to select someone
Small is a synonym for insufficient in few topic. In some cases you can use "Small" instead an adjective "Insufficient".
Nearby Words: insufficiency, insufficiently
Small
Small adjective - Of a size that is less than average.
Usage example: a small cat who never weighed more than five pounds
Insufficient is a synonym for small in quantity topic. Sometimes you can use "Insufficient" instead an adjective "Small", if it concerns topics such as inadequate, meagre, few.
Nearby Word: smallish
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- low and insufficient
- low and small
- short and insufficient
- short and small
- insignificant and insufficient
- insignificant and small
- inferior and insufficient
- inferior and small
- poor and insufficient
- poor and small
- inadequate and insufficient
- inadequate and small
- little and insufficient
- little and small
Both words in one sentence
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It came with two distict downsides, however—the weapon itself had a criminally small magazine of just 30 shots, and its arc was insufficient to hit enemy helicopters.
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Faster-Than-Light Travel: Your ship has a "flux drive", but its a small one and insufficient to get you home.
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A vessel close to something like the sun that has insufficient radiating surface area can actually find itself overheating from the small but continuous sunlight because there is literally nothing for it to have convection with.
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