INSUFFICIENT  不足

FEW OR LITTLE IN-RELATION-TO what is NEEDED.
INADEQUATEDEFICIENTPOORSCANTSCANTYNOT ENOUGHTOO LITTLETOO FEWTOO SMALLSCARCESPARSEIN SHORT SUPPLYLACKINGWANTINGPALTRYMEAGERNIGGARDLYINCOMPLETERESTRICTEDLIMITEDINFORMAL MEASLYPATHETICPIDDLING
Hypernym
  • FEWSMALL in QUANTITY.
    • QUANTITYDEGREE of being MANY OR FEW that CAN be MEASURED OR COUNTED.
      • DEGREEFEATURE of MORE or LESS.
        • FEATUREABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE....
Modern Chinese Criteria
不足

欠缺

虧短

闕如

貧乏

貧

絀

供不應求

粥少僧多

rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

    Words

    不足  bù zú OC: pɯʔ tsoɡ MC: pi̯ut tsi̯ok 11 Attributions

      Syntactic words
    • NPabfeaturedeficiency; insufficiency (of resources)
    • VPibe insufficient; suffer insufficiency of resources; suffer famine
    • VPt+V[0]=不足以 not qualified to V
    不及  bù jí OC: pɯʔ ɡrɯb MC: pi̯ut gip 4 Attributions

      Word relations
    • Ant: 過/EXCESSIVE Guò 過 often, but not always, focusses on the aspect of transgression in excessiveness.

      Syntactic words
    • VPinot do enough (versus go too far); be insufficient; be not good enough
    少  shǎo OC: hmljewʔ MC: ɕiɛu 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNbe insufficiently endowed with
    短乏  duǎn fá OC: toonʔ bob MC: tʷɑn bi̯ɐp 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPabstativeinsufficiency, shortage
    虛  xū OC: qhla MC: hi̯ɤ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • nabfeatureinsufficiencies, weak points
    • vibe deficient (in form or quantity)CH
    有不得者  yǒu fǒu dé dé de děi zhě MC: hjuwX pjuwX tok tsyaeX OC: ɢʷɯʔ pɯʔ tɯɯɡ kljaʔCH 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPibe insufficientCH
    嗛  qiǎn MC: khemX OC: khleemʔLZ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • nab(xián) shortageLZ

    Existing SW for

    Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: