in competency

insufficient, inadequate; too little; not enough; unequal to; incompetent (impotent); "weighed in the balance and found wanting"; pertunctory (neglect); deficient (incomplete); wanting; imperfect; ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill-stored, ill-off., slack, at a low ebb; empty, vacant, bare; short of, out of, destitute of, devoid of , bereft of [more]; denuded of; dry, drained., unprovided, unsupplied, unfurnished; unreplenished, unfed; unstored, untreasured; empty-handed., meager, poor, thin, scrimp, sparing, spare, stinted; starved, starving; half-starved, famine-stricken, famished; jejune., scant (small); scarce; not to be had, not to be had for love or money, not to be had at any price; scurvy; stingy; at the end of one's tether; without resources; in want (poor); in debt.