inadequacy (redirected from inadequacies)

in·ad·e·qua·cy  (n-d-kw-s)

n. pl. in·ad·e·qua·cies

1. The quality or condition of being inadequate.

2. An instance of being inadequate; a failing or lack.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	inadequacy - lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" deficiency, insufficiency amount - the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion; "an adequate amount of food for four people" exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness, poorness - the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot deficit, shortage, shortfall - the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit" scarceness, scarcity - a small and inadequate amount slenderness - the quality of being slight or inadequate; "he knew the slenderness of my wallet"; "the slenderness of the chances that anything would be done"; "the slenderness of the evidence" adequacy, sufficiency - the quality of being sufficient for the end in view; "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence"
	2.	inadequacy - a lack of competence; "pointed out the insufficiencies in my report"; "juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents" insufficiency failing, weakness - a flaw or weak point; "he was quick to point out his wife's failings"
	3.	inadequacy - unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate inadequateness unsatisfactoriness - the quality of being inadequate or unsuitable adequacy, adequateness - the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: "he questioned the adequacy of the usual sentimental interpretation of the Golden Rule"

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inadequacy

noun

1. shortage, poverty, dearth, paucity, insufficiency, incompleteness, meagreness, skimpiness, scantiness, inadequateness the inadequacy of the water supply

2. incompetence, inability, deficiency, incapacity, ineffectiveness, incompetency, unfitness, inefficacy, defectiveness, inaptness, faultiness, unsuitableness his deep-seated sense of inadequacy

3. shortcoming, failing, lack, weakness, shortage, defect, imperfection He drank heavily in an effort to forget his own inadequacies.

Translations

inadequacy [ɪnˈædɪkwəsɪ] N

1. (= insufficiency) [of funding, resources, measures, training] → insuficiencia f; [of housing, diet] → lo inadecuado

2. (= weakness) [of person] → incompetencia f, ineptitud f; [of system] → deficiencia f

inadequacy [ɪnˈædɪkwəsi] n

[supply, provision, system] → insuffisance f
the inadequacies of sth (= deficiencies) → les insuffisances de qch

(lack of requisite qualities for job, role) → inaptitude f

(= weakness) [person] → faiblesse f

inadequacy

n → Unzulänglichkeit f; (of measures) → Unangemessenheit f

inadequacy [ɪnˈædɪkwəsɪ] n → inadeguatezza, insufficienza; (of person) → incapacità f inv