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Insufficient has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement

"insufficient funds"

2

Not sufficient.

"The amount of money left was insufficient to cover our travel expenses."

Related Terms
Antonyms
sufficient

Origin

The word entered English from Middle French as insufficient, which itself came from the Latin insufficiens. It originally combined the negative prefix in- with sufficiens to mean "not enough" or "lacking sufficiency."

Rhyming Words
ent bent ment went sent vent pent hent cent fent dent tent kent gent rent lent djent ament seent brent
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