Meaning

1 senses
  1. Not sufficiently.

    The machine was decommissioned because it was producing widgets insufficiently.

    ungenügend

    недоста́точноnedostátočno

    недоста́тньоnedostátnʹo

More definitions
  • to an insufficient degree

Examples

5 sentences
  1. As people are still generally insufficiently educated, wars are still inevitable.

    Оскільки взагалі люди не достатньо освічені й дотепер, війни й дотепер незапобіжні. — shanghainese

  2. The Japanese are often criticized for being inward looking and insufficiently international in their outlook.

  3. Nevertheless, I believe that these claims are insufficiently justified.

    ruТем не менее я считаю, что эти претензии недостаточно обоснованны. — al_ex_an_der

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  4. Rather than attack racism, they attack each other for being insufficiently anti-racist.

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  5. Rather than focus on actual problems, they bicker among themselves, accusing each other of having beliefs that are insufficiently ideologically pure.

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Translations

8 languages
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Русский
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Origin

From insufficient + -ly or in- + sufficiently.

From insufficient + -ly or in- + sufficiently.

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Forms

more insufficiently, most insufficiently
Comparativemore insufficiently Lesson
Superlativemost insufficiently

regular

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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