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Antonyms for in adequacy
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : in-ad-i-kwuh-see |
Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈæd ɪ kwə si |
- ability
- abundance
- accomplishment
- accuracy
- achievement
- achiever
- addition
- adequacy
- advantage
- affluence
- agreement
- alikeness
- ample
- ascent
- attainment
- attention
- avoirdupois
- balance
- benefit
- betterment
- blessing
- capacity
- care
- cleanliness
- comfort
- commonness
- competence
- concurrence
- continuation
- correction
- development
- disinterest
- dislike
- earnings
- ease
- effectiveness
- enlargement
- enough
- equality
- evenness
- excellence
- excess
- existence
- expansion
- extra
- fatness
- fill
- flawlessness
- fortune
- gain
- generosity
- good fortune
- good health
- hate
- have
- health
- healthiness
- heartiness
- improvement
- increase
- likeness
- lot
- luxury
- merit
- obedience
- parity
- payment
- perfection
- pleasure
- plentifulness
- plenty
- plethora
- power
- presence
- profit
- profusion
- proportion
- purity
- regard
- remembrance
- respect
- riches
- richness
- right
- rise
- robustness
- sameness
- satisfaction
- similarity
- skill
- solidity
- soundness
- strength
- strong point
- success
- sufficiency
- superfluousness
- surplus
- talent
- thickness
- triumph
- vigor
- wealth
- whole
- win
- worth
Definition of in adequacy
Origin :- 1764, from inadequate + -cy. Related: Inadequacies.
- As in inability : noun disabling lack of talent, skill
- As in inadequacy : noun shortage, defect, inability
- As in absence : noun state of lacking something needed or usual
- As in lack : noun deficiency, need
- As in need : noun poverty
- As in need : noun emergency; pressing lack
- As in pittance : noun small amount
- As in poverty : noun want; extreme need, often financial
- As in shortage : noun deficiency
- As in shortfall : noun deficit; imperfection
- As in want : noun lack, need
- As in incompetence : noun lack of ability
- As in inferiority : noun deficiency
- As in worthlessness : noun uselessness
- As in insufficiency : noun lack
- As in scarcity : noun deficiency
- As in thinness : noun slenderness
- As in impecuniosity : noun poverty
- As in impecuniousness : noun poverty
- As in impoverishment : noun poverty
- As in incapability : noun ineffectuality
- As in incapability : noun inability
- As in incompetency : noun inability
- As in ineffectiveness : noun ineffectuality
- As in ineffectualness : noun ineffectuality
- As in inefficacy : noun ineffectuality
- As in insolvency : noun failure
- As in neediness : noun poverty
- As in nonfeasance : noun failure
- As in pennilessness : noun poverty
- As in penuriousness : noun poverty
- As in powerlessness : noun inability
- As in powerlessness : noun ineffectuality
- As in scantiness : noun shortage
- As in scantness : noun shortage
- As in scarceness : noun shortage
- As in underage : noun shortage
- As in unsuccess : noun failure
- As in unsuccessfulness : noun failure
- As in uselessness : noun ineffectuality
- As in dearth : noun insufficiency, scarcity
- As in default : noun failure; want
- As in deficit : noun shortage of something needed, required
- As in disadvantage(s) : noun difficulty, trouble
- As in disproportion : noun imbalance
- As in failure : noun lack of success
- As in feebleness : noun lack of strength; ineffectiveness
- As in imperfection : noun flaw
Synonyms for in adequacy
- abjection
- abortion
- abridgement
- absence
- adverse circumstance
- allowance
- aridity
- arrears
- asymmetry
- bankruptcy
- bar
- barrenness
- beggary
- bit
- blemish
- blocking
- blunder
- bomb
- botch
- breakdown
- bug
- bungle
- burden
- bust
- catch
- checkmate
- chicken feed
- collapse
- curtailment
- dead horse
- dearth
- debility
- debt
- decay
- decline
- decrease
- decrepitude
- defalcation
- default
- defeat
- defect
- defectiveness
- deficiency
- deficit
- deformity
- delicacy
- delinquency
- demerit
- depletion
- deprivation
- dereliction
- destitution
- deterioration
- detriment
- difference
- difficulty
- disability
- discommodity
- discrepancy
- disease
- disfigurement
- disparity
- disqualification
- disregard
- distress
- downfall
- drawback
- dribble
- drop
- drop in the bucket
- drought
- due bill
- dues
- effeteness
- emaciation
- emptiness
- enervation
- error
- etiolation
- exhaustion
- exigency
- exiguity
- exiguousness
- extremity
- failing
- failure
- fallibility
- false step
- famine
- fault
- faultiness
- faux pas
- feebleness
- fiasco
- fineness
- flash in the pan
- flaw
- flimsiness
- flop
- fly in the ointment
- foible
- frailness
- frailty
- frustration
- gauntness
- glitch
- gremlin
- hamper
- handicap
- hardship
- helplessness
- hindrance
- imparity
- impecuniosity
- impecuniousness
- impediment
- imperfection
- implosion
- imposition
- impotence
- impoverishment
- impracticality
- in hock
- in the hole
- in the red
- inability
- inadequacy
- inadequateness
- inaptitude
- inaptness
- incapability
- incapacitation
- incapacity
- incompactness
- incompetence
- incompetency
- incompleteness
- inconvenience
- indigence
- ineffectiveness
- ineffectualness
- inefficacy
- inefficiency
- ineptitude
- ineptness
- inequality
- inexperience
- inferiority
- infirmity
- infirmness
- infrequency
- insignificance
- insolvency
- insufficience
- insufficiency
- inutility
- irregularity
- lack
- lameness
- languor
- lapse
- lassitude
- lead balloon
- leanness
- lemon
- liability
- limitation
- lopsidedness
- loser
- loss
- malaise
- meagerness
- mediocrity
- mess
- minus
- misadventure
- miscarriage
- miss
- misstep
- mite
- modicum
- necessitousness
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- neglect
- nonpayment
- nonperformance
- nonsuccess
- nuisance
- objection
- obligation
- obstacle
- offense
- omission
- overlooking
- oversight
- overthrow
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- peanuts
- peccadillo
- pennilessness
- pension
- penuriousness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- portion
- poverty
- powerlessness
- privation
- problem
- rareness
- rarity
- ration
- red ink
- reduction
- restraint
- retrenchment
- rout
- rupture
- scantiness
- scantness
- scarceness
- scarcity
- scrap
- senility
- shallowness
- shortage
- shortcoming
- shortfall
- shortness
- shrinkage
- shrinking
- sickliness
- sin
- sinking ship
- skimpiness
- slave wages
- slight
- slightness
- slim pickings
- slimness
- smidgen
- snag
- spareness
- sparseness
- sparsity
- stain
- stalemate
- starvation
- stint
- stoppage
- straits
- stringency
- stumbling block
- subtilization
- subtilty
- taint
- tenuity
- tightness
- total loss
- trace
- transgression
- trifle
- turkey
- unavailability
- uncommonness
- underage
- underdevelopment
- unevenness
- unfitness
- unhealthiness
- unsuccess
- unsuccessfulness
- unsuitableness
- urgency
- uselessness
- vacancy
- vice
- void
- want
- washout
- weak point
- weakness
- wreck
- wrongdoing
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