Insufficient meaning

ĭn'sə-fĭsh'ənt
The definition of insufficient is that there is not enough of something.

If you want to buy something that costs $100 and you only have $40, this is an example of a time when you have insufficient funds.

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Not sufficient; inadequate.
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Not sufficient; not enough; inadequate.
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Origin of insufficient

  • From Middle French insufficient, from Latin insufficiens. See also in- +‎ sufficient
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Insufficient Sentence Examples

  • It may also dismiss a case on grounds of insufficient evidence.

  • Though these reasons were very insufficient and obscure, no one made any rejoinder.

  • 17 and a thickness of insulating material which formerly would have been considered quite insufficient is now very generally adopted with complete success.

  • The British School, founded in 1886, has been unable, owing to insufficient endowment, to work on similar lines with the French and German institutions; it has, however, carried out extensive excavations at Megalopolis and in Melos, as well as researches at Abae, in Athens (presumed site of the Cynosarges), in Cyprus, at Naucratis and at Sparta.

  • Many theories of the relation of human to animal sacrifice have been put forward, most of them on an insufficient basis of facts.

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