INSUFFICIENT    不足

FEW OR LITTLE IN-RELATION-TO what is NEEDED.
INADEQUATEDEFICIENTPOORSCANTSCANTYNOT ENOUGHTOO LITTLETOO FEWTOO SMALLSCARCESPARSEIN SHORT SUPPLYLACKINGWANTINGPALTRYMEAGERNIGGARDLYINCOMPLETERESTRICTEDLIMITEDINFORMAL MEASLYPATHETICPIDDLING
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 ／
Hypernym
  • LITTLE　SMALL in QUANTITY of a SUBSTANCE. (anc: 8/0, child: 1)
  • SMALL　LACK BIGNESS IN-RELATION-TO a STANDARD, OR IN-RELATION-TO the SIZE of a HUMAN. (anc: 7/0, child: 8)
  • LACK　SITUATION OF NOT HAVING, OR NOT to BEING-IN the UNIVERSE. (anc: 6/0, child: 48)
Other Hypernyms
  • FEW　SMALL in QUANTITY. (anc: 6/0, child: 3)
  • QUANTITY　DEGREE of being MANY OR FEW that CAN be MEASURED OR COUNTED. (anc: 5/0, child: 3)
  • DEGREE　FEATURE of MORE or LESS. (anc: 4/0, child: 4)

Words (7 items)

不足  bù zú OC: pɯʔ tsoɡ MC: pi̯ut tsi̯ok 13 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 5 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
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 kljaʔ 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • VPibe insufficientCH
短乏  duǎn fá OC: toonʔ bob MC: tʷɑn bi̯ɐp 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • NPabstativeinsufficiency, shortage
嗛  qiǎn MC: khemX OC: khleemʔ 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • nab(xián) shortageLZ