DEFICIENT


Meaning of DEFICIENT in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

mentally

If you have a slurred voice, people are likely to treat you as mentally deficient .

They specifically admitted children who were behaviorally aggressive, not mentally deficient , brain damaged, or psychotic.

The school I was sent to was overrun with colonial children-many described as mentally deficient and put in special schools.

There is, even yet, a hangover of fear and superstition where the disables or mentally deficient are concerned.

A mentally deficient or unstable individual was not wanted on the line, even if there was a shortage of men.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

As many as 2 million students leave school with deficient basic skills.

Your diet is deficient in vitamins.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Gospel preaching will be seriously deficient if this dimension is omitted.

How would they react to a deficient health care system?

It was a delightful, careless room, untidy and rather deficient in comfortable chairs.

It will shock her, this assumed equivalence with a man so strikingly deficient .

The capacity of the ram inboard to accommodate her crew was fearfully deficient ....

The investment appraisal published by the Southern board was deficient in many respects.

There is, even yet, a hangover of fear and superstition where the disables or mentally deficient are concerned.

Vitamin E is available from so many food sources that no normal diet could possibly be deficient in it.

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