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 deficient [dɪ'fɪʃənt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 不足的, 不充分的, 有缺陷的

  1. Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.
    不足的，缺乏的在数量、程度或范围上缺乏的；不足的
  2. One that is physically or mentally deficient.
    有缺陷的人身心不健全的人
  3. Lacking or deficient.
    欠缺的缺乏的或不足的


deficient
[ adj ]
  1. of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement

    2. <adj.all>
    insufficient funds
  2. inadequate in amount or degree

    3. <adj.all>
    a deficient education
    deficient in common sense
    lacking in stamina
    tested and found wanting
  3. falling short of some prescribed norm

    4. <adj.all>
    substandard housing


Deficient \De*fi"cient\, a. [L. deficiens, -entis, p. pr. of
deficere to be wanting. See {Defect}.]
Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a
requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective;
imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts;
deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment.

The style was indeed deficient in ease and variety.
--Macaulay.

{Deficient number}. (Arith.) See under {Abundant}. --
{De*fi"cient-ly}, adv.

  1. Long-term indicators of stress persist: rising crime, homelessness, deficient public transport and poor state schools are the most obvious.
  2. In addition, Minnesota Commerce Commissioner Michael Hatch said Monday he found Davis Acquisition Inc.'s registration statement offering to purchase all of NWA Inc.'s outstanding shares deficient.
  3. International pilots will be warned that safety in the skies over seven U.S. cities is critically deficient due to a change in air traffic control rules, the Air Line Pilots Association announced Tuesday.
  4. But its tax administration is notoriously deficient. Britain, whose government so prided itself on tax reform in the 1980s, has a poor tax policy record in Mr Messere's view.
  5. They would be free to raise fresh legal objections if they felt the information was still deficient.
  6. The HCFA is currently working with insurance companies to improve error-reduction programs, an area in which the GAO said the agency has been deficient.
  7. It said Oxford didn't record unregistered debt on its books, and this debt obligation made its net capital deficient.
  8. However, with capital of only $414 million, American Savings still remains deficient, by $928 million.
  9. The sick economy, deficient schools and ill-equipped hospitals are the main complaints on the jacaranda-tree-lined streets of Lusaka, the capital, as well as on the red-dirt roads of the rural villages where sick babies go untreated.
  10. It is not enough of a justification to say that their actions are designed to maximise profits. However, in three ways, the arguments in this volume are deficient.
  11. But some dissatisfied customers tell of unchecked references, deficient screening, broken contracts and unrefunded fees.
  12. 'We admit that we are deficient in some areas, but we thought it would be useful to define 'unfair trade' and look at the practices of our trading partners.' The study divided trade policies into 10 categories.
  13. Brain scans showed that the left side of his brain was deficient in dopamine production, and that the right side of the brain was less affected.
  14. More than half of them received deficient care, a state-commissioned report found.
  15. Trade, even allowing for deficient statistics, is thought to have made a negative contribution to UK economic growth last year.
  16. The main target is acetylcholine (a neurotransmitter essential for memory) in which the Alzheimer's brain is severely deficient. A class of medicines called aminoacridines achieve this by blocking the enzyme that destroys acetylcholine in the brain.
  17. Dickinson said a hearing would spotlight such issues as continued problems with deficient brakes in the trucking industry, whether school buses have adequate escape hatches and whether students are sufficiently drilled on emergency escape routes.
  18. "The hospital will remain closed until they submit a plan of corrections and we determine those areas cited as deficient have been corrected," Froseth said.
  19. At its first hearing, on Nov. 17, former FAA security director Billie H. Vincent told the panel that air security is "seriously deficient" in high-threat areas such as Europe and the Middle East.
  20. The Securities and Exchange Commission charged E.F. Hutton Group Inc. with having deficient internal accounting controls and consequently failing to file accurate periodic reports from 1983 through 1985.
  21. The report says pressure to hire Indian teachers _ now 41 percent of the teaching staff _ means some are poorly trained and "deficient in the basic reading, writing and mathematical skills they were expected to teach."
  22. "Individually, there will be some lucky farmers," Mr. Taylor said, but "overall, the rainfall will be deficient."
  23. Iberia said the complaints of a deficient service were based on events in 1991 when the airline suffered a series of big industrial disputes and an overhaul of Spain's air traffic control network.
  24. The paper had called Cole's music class "one of Dartmouth's most academically deficient" in an article that drew charges of racism against the newspaper.
  25. American endeavors have included helping Panama set up a new police force, assisting El Salvador on upgrading its deficient judicial system and instructing Afghanistan on overhauling its irrigation system.
  26. If our institutions are deficient then the need for far-reaching reform is long overdue.
  27. It also says that the seven deficient states have made considerable progress in the past year.
  28. "We tend to think of agriculture as inherently better than running around as hunter-gatherers," but early plants were nutritionally deficient and farms faced the risk of poor weather or blight, Wills said.
  29. "The approach to this problem is not to give everybody and their mother-in-law vitamin B-12 shots at the drop of a symptom but to document that they are vitamin B-12 deficient and then treat them," Lindenbaum said.
  30. "Rehabilitation services and housing for the seriously mentally ill remain on the best of days seriously deficient and on the worst of days abysmal," it said.
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