insufficiency; inadequacy, inadequateness; incompetence (impotence); deficiency (incompleteness); imperfection; shortcoming; paucity; stint; scantiness (smallness); none to spare, bare subsistence., scarcity, dearth; want, need, lack, poverty, exigency; inanition, starvation, famine, drought., dole, mite, pittance; short allowance, short commons; half rations; banyan day., emptiness, poorness; depletion, vacancy, flaccidity; ebb tide; low water; "a beggarly account of empty boxes" [Romeo and Juliet]; indigence; insolvency (nonpayment).

be insufficient; not suffice; come short of, run dry., want, lack, need, require; caret; be in want (poor), live from hand to mouth., render insufficient; drain of resources, impoverish (waste) [more]; stint (begrudge); put on short allowance., do insufficiently; scotch the snake.

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.

insufficiently; in default of, for want of; failing.