Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | diminished |
| Synonyms: | deficient, less, negative, short of, smaller, subtracting |
| Main Entry: | absent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deficient in something needed or usual |
| Synonyms: | bare, blank, devoid, empty, hollow, lacking, minus, missing, nonexistent, omitted, unavailable, vacant, vacuous, wanting |
| Antonyms: | sufficient |
| Main Entry: | bereft |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lacking; missing |
| Synonyms: | beggared, bereaved, cut off, deprived, destitute, devoid, dispossessed, divested, fleeced, impoverished, left without, minus, naked, parted from, robbed, shorn, stripped, wanting, without |
| Antonyms: | full, happy |
| Main Entry: | disadvantage(s) |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty, trouble |
| Synonyms: | adverse circumstance, bar, blocking, burden, defect, deficiency, deprivation, detriment, disability, discommodity, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, fly in the ointment, hamper, handicap, hardship, hindrance, impediment, imperfection, imposition, inadequacy, inconvenience, inutility, lack, liability, limitation, minus, nuisance, objection, obstacle, privation, problem, restraint, snag, stumbling block, weak point, weakness |
| Antonyms: | advantage, good fortune |
| Main Entry: | downside |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a negative aspect of a situation |
| Synonyms: | defect, disadvantage, drawback, fault, flaw, inconvenience, minus, problem, trouble |
| Main Entry: | except |
| Part of Speech: | preposition |
| Definition: | other than |
| Synonyms: | apart from, aside from, bar, barring, besides, but, excepting, excluding, exclusive of, exempting, if not, lacking, leaving out, minus, not for, omitting, outside of, rejecting, save, saving, short of, with the exception of, without |
| Notes: | accept is 'take or agree to' and except means 'exclude, leave out' |
| Main Entry: | imperfect |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flawed |
| Synonyms: | amiss, below par, bottom-of-barrel, broken, damaged, defective, deficient, disfigured, dud, faulty, few bugs, garbage*, immature, impaired, incomplete, inexact, injured, junk*, lemon, limited, low, marred, minus, partial, patchy, rudimentary, schlocky, sick, sketchy, two-bit, undeveloped, unfinished, unsound, vicious, warped |
| Antonyms: | excellent, faultless, finished, perfect, pure, unblemished, unflawed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inadequate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | defective, insufficient, incompetent |
| Synonyms: | bare, barren, bush-league, deficient, depleted, dry, failing, faulty, feeble, found wanting, glitch*, imperfect, impotent, inappreciable, inapt, incapable, incommensurate, incompetent, incomplete, inconsiderable, insubstantial, junk*, lacking, lame*, lemon, lousy, low, meager, minus, miserly, niggardly, not enough, parsimonious, poor, scanty, scarce, short, shy*, sketchy*, skimpy, small, spare, sparse, sterile, stinted, stunted, thin*, too little, unequal, unproductive, unqualified, weak |
| Antonyms: | able, adequate, competent, enough, sufficient |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inferior |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | less in rank, importance |
| Synonyms: | back seat, bottom, bottom-rung, entry-level, junior, less, lesser, lower, menial, minor, minus, nether, peon, second, second-banana, second-fiddle, second-string, secondary, smaller, subjacent, subordinate, subsidiary, under, underneath |
| Antonyms: | best, better, extraordinary, first-class, first-rate, foremost, superior |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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