incompetence &c (impotence) 158; deficiency &c (incompleteness) 53;
imperfection &c 651; shortcoming &c 304; paucity; stint; scantiness &c
(smallness) 32; none to spare, bare subsistence.
scarcity, dearth; want, need, lack, poverty, exigency; inanition,
starvation, famine, drought.
dole, mite, pittance; short allowance, short commons; half
rations; banyan day.
emptiness, poorness &c adj.; depletion, vacancy, flaccidity; ebb
tide; low water; a beggarly account of empty boxes [Romeo and Juliet];
indigence &c 804; insolvency &c (nonpayment) 808.
V. be insufficient &c adj.; not suffice &c 639; come short of &c 304;
run dry.
want, lack, need, require; caret; be in want &c (poor) 804, live
from hand to mouth.
render insufficient &c Adj.; drain of resources, impoverish &c
(waste) 638; stint &c (begrudge) 819; put on short allowance.
do insufficiently &c adv.; scotch the snake.
Adj. insufficient, inadequate; too little &c 32; not enough &c 639;
unequal to; incompetent &c (impotent) 158; weighed in the balance and
found wanting; perfunctory &c (neglect) 460; deficient &c (incomplete)
53; wanting, &c v.; imperfect &c 651; ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill-
stored, ill-off.
slack, at a low ebb; empty, vacant, bare; short of, out of,
destitute of, devoid of, bereft of &c 789; denuded of; dry, drained.
unprovided, unsupplied†, unfurnished; unreplenished, unfed†;
unstored†, untreasured†; empty-handed.
meager, poor, thin, scrimp, sparing, spare, stinted; starved,
starving; halfstarved, famine-stricken, famished; jejune.
scant &c (small) 32; scarce; not to be had, not to be had for love
or money, not to be had at any price; scurvy; stingy &c 819; at the end
of one's tether; without resources &c 632; in want &c (poor) 804; in
debt &c 806.
Adv. insufficiently &c adj.; in default of, for want of; failing.
Phr. semper avarus eget [Lat.] [Horace].