What is another word for be insufficient?

Pronunciation: [biː ɪnsəfˈɪʃənt] (IPA)

When describing something that is not enough or does not meet the required amount, a common phrase used is "be insufficient". However, there are several synonyms that can be used to convey the same meaning such as inadequate, deficient, lacking, insufficient, wanting, or not up to par. Each of these synonyms brings a slightly different shade of meaning, but they all describe something that falls short of what is needed or expected. It is essential to choose the most appropriate synonym based on the context and the degree of insufficiency being described to convey a clear and concise message.

What are the hypernyms for Be insufficient?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for be insufficient?

Antonyms for the phrase "be insufficient" include "be enough," "be sufficient," "be adequate," "be plentiful," "be ample," and "be abundant." These antonyms suggest a state of having more than enough or adequate resources to fulfill a particular need or requirement. They connote a sense of abundance, completeness and satisfaction, in stark contrast to the lack, inadequacy or scarcity that "be insufficient" implies. While "be insufficient" highlights deficits, "be enough," "be sufficient," and their synonyms underscore the presence of enough or more than enough resources to meet one's needs, a positive and reassuring connotation that inspires confidence and peace of mind.

What are the antonyms for Be insufficient?

Famous quotes with Be insufficient

  • What will be the consequences of the ultimate disappearance of private property? Society will take all forces of production and means of commerce, as well as the exchange and distribution of products, out of the hands of private capitalists and will manage them in accordance with a plan based on the availability of resources and the needs of the whole society. In this way, most important of all, the evil consequences which are now associated with the conduct of big industry will be abolished. There will be no more crises; the expanded production, which for the present order of society is overproduction and hence a prevailing cause of misery, will then be insufficient and in need of being expanded much further. Instead of generating misery, overproduction will reach beyond the elementary requirements of society to assure the satisfaction of the needs of all; it will create new needs and, at the same time, the means of satisfying them. It will become the condition of, and the stimulus to, new progress, which will no longer throw the whole social order into confusion, as progress has always done in the past.
    Friedrich Engels
  • “Every act involves a discovery of finite beings and seeing them as such, one understands ever better the reality of God’s presence, since finiteness by itself would be insufficient. God is the continuous miracle. It may be said that if it is continuous it is no longer a miracle. But miracle there is, although it does not consist in any outstanding or exceptional event. The miracle is that without God all finite things and their mutual relationships fade away into abstractions – whereas with God, they live in our spirit, in a conscious relationship. The essential construction of reality lies in this and not in the activism of the materialists who have little awareness of the intimate religious relationship.”
    Aldo Capitini
  • As that little child in the spacesuit in grew up, three things would become obvious to him. He would be aware that he hadn’t been trained to really understand the history of mechanization, and was insufficient in that regard; that he hadn’t been trained to be anything like Winston Churchill, and was going to be permanently insufficient in that regard; and that he wasn’t actually going to be able to look a mine worker in the eye, and was going to be insufficient in that regard. He was going to be aware that he had been a Video Ranger from the start, and that he was going to have to keep on being a Video Ranger, and that he was going to have to learn to laugh about that. And, also, because he wanted to get married, to be a man in some sense, he was going to have to be serious about something. He was going to have to touch base with some real thing going on in his father, and what he got hold of was the irony in his father....And the evolution of that process is toward David Letterman…. We were going to have to grow up to be entirely ironic in our visceral reactions to our own manhood.
    George W. S. Trow

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