deficient in
Frequency: 9.020.5 per million words
Used to introduce the specific thing that is lacking.
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Examples (10)
- Their food is deficient in iron.
- A diet deficient in vitamin C can lead to scurvy.
- The report was seriously deficient in factual accuracy.
- He proved to be sadly deficient in common sense.
- The small startup was deficient in the funding needed for expansion.
- If your plan is deficient in detail, it is likely to fail.
- We noticed the old building was deficient in modern safety features.
- Their argument is intellectually deficient in logical structure.
- The proposal, while ambitious, was found to be deficient in several key areas.
- Although the soil is only slightly deficient in nitrogen, it still affects crop yield.