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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | responsible for action |
| Synonyms: | amiss, answerable, at fault, blamable, blameful, blameworthy, caught, caught in the act, caught red-handed, censurable, demeritorious, dirty, found wanting, guilty, hung up, impeachable, in the wrong, indictable, liable, off base, out of line, punishable, reprehensible, responsible, sinful, smoking gun, to blame, unholy, wrong |
| Antonyms: | blameless, inculpable, innocent, not guilty, right |
| 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: | unfinished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not completed |
| Synonyms: | amateurish, bare, crude, cut short, dabbling, defective, deficient, dilettante, faulty, formless, found wanting, fragmentary, half-baked, half-done, immature, imperfect, in the making, in the rough, incomplete, lacking, natural, not done, plain, raw, rough, roughhewn, shapeless, sketchy, tentative, unaccomplished, unadorned, unassembled, uncompleted, unconcluded, under construction, undeveloped, undone, unexecuted, unfashioned, unfulfilled, unperfected, unpolished, unrefined, wanting |
| Antonyms: | completed, finished, polished, refined, whole |
| Main Entry: | undermanned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inadequate in work force |
| Synonyms: | found wanting, incomplete, not enough, scarce, short, shorthanded, shy*, too little |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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