Deficient
adjective
If something or someone is deficient, they are not having enough of something necessary.
The report showed that their diet was deficient in vitamins.
Often appears as...
- deficient in
- nutritionally deficient
adjective
Not good enough in ability or quality.
His deficient communication skills were obvious.
Often appears as...
- deficient skills
- deficient performance
adjective
If something or someone is deficient, they are not having enough of something necessary.
The report showed that their diet was deficient in vitamins.
Often appears as...
- deficient in
- nutritionally deficient
adjective
Not good enough in ability or quality.
His deficient communication skills were obvious.
Often appears as...
- deficient skills
- deficient performance
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Health Context
Used when nutrition or health is lacking. It suggests a need for improvement to achieve well-being.
Without enough sunlight, people can become vitamin D deficient.
Pro Tip 2/3Scientific Assessment
Often found in scientific or technical reports about shortages in substances or elements.
The soil tests revealed a deficient level of nitrogen for plant growth.
Pro Tip 3/3Implicit Urgency
Carries a sense of urgency implying that the deficiency should be rectified soon.
They found the network security system to be deficient and in need of immediate upgrades.
Pro Tip 1/3Health Context
Used when nutrition or health is lacking. It suggests a need for improvement to achieve well-being.
Without enough sunlight, people can become vitamin D deficient.
Pro Tip 2/3Scientific Assessment
Often found in scientific or technical reports about shortages in substances or elements.
The soil tests revealed a deficient level of nitrogen for plant growth.
Pro Tip 3/3Implicit Urgency
Carries a sense of urgency implying that the deficiency should be rectified soon.
They found the network security system to be deficient and in need of immediate upgrades.
Pro Tip 1/3Health Context
Used when nutrition or health is lacking. It suggests a need for improvement to achieve well-being.
Without enough sunlight, people can become vitamin D deficient.
Pro Tip 2/3Scientific Assessment
Often found in scientific or technical reports about shortages in substances or elements.
The soil tests revealed a deficient level of nitrogen for plant growth.
Pro Tip 3/3Implicit Urgency
Carries a sense of urgency implying that the deficiency should be rectified soon.
They found the network security system to be deficient and in need of immediate upgrades.
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Video examples
Bassam Tariq: The beauty...
into sociopolitical symbols. Of course, we didn't listen to them, and instead, we championed the tender gestures of love and headlong flashes of youth. The agenda behind our cinematic immersion was only empathy, an emotion that's largely deficient from films that come from our region of the world.
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Brian Skerry reveals...
a little more respectful of the species. I also searched on this story for the elusive great hammerhead, an animal that really hadn't been photographed much until maybe about seven or 10 years ago. It's a very solitary creature. But this is an animal that's considered data deficient by science
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3 clues to understanding...
So, every brain region is wired to every other region, and these are trimmed down to create the characteristic modular architecture of the adult brain. So, if there's a gene causing this trimming and if that gene mutates, then you get deficient trimming between adjacent brain areas.
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The neuroscience of...
The amygdala is an almond-shaped organ deep within each of the hemispheres of the brain. It is thought to be key to the experience of empathy. Normally, the more empathic a person is, the larger and more active their amygdala is. Our population of inmates had a deficient amygdala,
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What we're learning from...
this case to a Stanford quality course and would never be able to afford it or Jenny who was a single mother of two and wants to hone her skills so that she can go back and complete her master's degree or Ryan who can't go to school because his immune deficient daughter can't be
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Why does the universe...
those who don't wonder about the contingency of their existence, of the contingency of the world's existence, are mentally deficient. That's a little harsh, but still. So this has been called the most sublime and awesome mystery, the deepest and most far-reaching question
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Life is messy. Embrace...
leaving some messes untied heed and some questions unanswered so much beauty can come from chaos but it's not the obvious kind it's subtle and dazzling and yes uncontrollable it was mayhem that healed me but I was i chaos deficient well as
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Rita Pierson: Every kid...
so academically deficient, that I cried. I wondered, "How am I going to take this group, in nine months, from where they are to where they need to be? And it was difficult, it was awfully hard. How do I raise the self-esteem of a child
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Andrea Marshall: Queen...
two decades ago we knew almost nothing about the world's largest ray one of the biggest fish in our ocean less than ten years ago the conservation status of this animal was still listed as data deficient highlighting the fact that we
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Why every student...
But one of the things that we never discuss or we rarely discuss is the value and importance of human connection. Relationships. I have had classes that were so low, so academically deficient, that I cried.
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Bassam Tariq: The beauty...
into sociopolitical symbols. Of course, we didn't listen to them, and instead, we championed the tender gestures of love and headlong flashes of youth. The agenda behind our cinematic immersion was only empathy, an emotion that's largely deficient from films that come from our region of the world.
Video examples
Brian Skerry reveals...
a little more respectful of the species. I also searched on this story for the elusive great hammerhead, an animal that really hadn't been photographed much until maybe about seven or 10 years ago. It's a very solitary creature. But this is an animal that's considered data deficient by science
Video examples
3 clues to understanding...
So, every brain region is wired to every other region, and these are trimmed down to create the characteristic modular architecture of the adult brain. So, if there's a gene causing this trimming and if that gene mutates, then you get deficient trimming between adjacent brain areas.
Video examples
The neuroscience of...
The amygdala is an almond-shaped organ deep within each of the hemispheres of the brain. It is thought to be key to the experience of empathy. Normally, the more empathic a person is, the larger and more active their amygdala is. Our population of inmates had a deficient amygdala,
Video examples
What we're learning from...
this case to a Stanford quality course and would never be able to afford it or Jenny who was a single mother of two and wants to hone her skills so that she can go back and complete her master's degree or Ryan who can't go to school because his immune deficient daughter can't be
Video examples
Why does the universe...
those who don't wonder about the contingency of their existence, of the contingency of the world's existence, are mentally deficient. That's a little harsh, but still. So this has been called the most sublime and awesome mystery, the deepest and most far-reaching question
Video examples
Life is messy. Embrace...
leaving some messes untied heed and some questions unanswered so much beauty can come from chaos but it's not the obvious kind it's subtle and dazzling and yes uncontrollable it was mayhem that healed me but I was i chaos deficient well as
Video examples
Rita Pierson: Every kid...
so academically deficient, that I cried. I wondered, "How am I going to take this group, in nine months, from where they are to where they need to be? And it was difficult, it was awfully hard. How do I raise the self-esteem of a child
Video examples
Andrea Marshall: Queen...
two decades ago we knew almost nothing about the world's largest ray one of the biggest fish in our ocean less than ten years ago the conservation status of this animal was still listed as data deficient highlighting the fact that we
Video examples
Why every student...
But one of the things that we never discuss or we rarely discuss is the value and importance of human connection. Relationships. I have had classes that were so low, so academically deficient, that I cried.
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Quote examples
Zach Ertz
American Athlete
If I could get better on the field, I could get better in my interviews. I took that approach: if there's something I'm deficient in, whether it be in relationships, whether it be talking to people, just that self-reflection to seek people out who can help me.
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Washington Irving
American Writer
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
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Pamela Meyer
American Author
While it can feel unfair to have to make a career decision because of a morally deficient boss, doing so can sometimes lead you in the right direction, if a bit faster than you otherwise would have preferred.
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Joel Fuhrman
American Scientist
The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto
Japanese Composer
I'm concerned by a deficient technology. In other words, errors or noises. It absorbs me, and I wonder if new cultural currents could emerge from this deficiency.
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Hilary Mantel
English Writer
Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.
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Freddie Wong
American Director
VR has a whole range of things it's very good at, and there's a lot of things that it's going to be deficient at.
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Martin Heidegger
German Philosopher
Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
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Salman Rushdie
Indian Novelist
Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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George C. Wolfe
American Playwright
Racists are deficient as human beings.
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Zach Ertz
American Athlete
If I could get better on the field, I could get better in my interviews. I took that approach: if there's something I'm deficient in, whether it be in relationships, whether it be talking to people, just that self-reflection to seek people out who can help me.
Quote examples
Washington Irving
American Writer
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
Quote examples
Pamela Meyer
American Author
While it can feel unfair to have to make a career decision because of a morally deficient boss, doing so can sometimes lead you in the right direction, if a bit faster than you otherwise would have preferred.
Quote examples
Joel Fuhrman
American Scientist
The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease.
Quote examples
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Japanese Composer
I'm concerned by a deficient technology. In other words, errors or noises. It absorbs me, and I wonder if new cultural currents could emerge from this deficiency.
Quote examples
Hilary Mantel
English Writer
Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.
Quote examples
Freddie Wong
American Director
VR has a whole range of things it's very good at, and there's a lot of things that it's going to be deficient at.
Quote examples
Martin Heidegger
German Philosopher
Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
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Salman Rushdie
Indian Novelist
Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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George C. Wolfe
American Playwright
Racists are deficient as human beings.
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