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Definition of Inadequacy
1. Noun. Lack of an adequate quantity or number. "The inadequacy of unemployment benefits"
Generic synonyms: Amount
Specialized synonyms: Exiguity, Leanness, Meagerness, Meagreness, Poorness, Scantiness, Scantness, Deficit, Shortage, Shortfall, Scarceness, Scarcity, Slenderness
Derivative terms: Deficient, Deficient, Insufficient
Antonyms: Adequacy, Sufficiency
2. Noun. A lack of competence. "Juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents"
3. Noun. Unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate.
Generic synonyms: Unsatisfactoriness
Antonyms: Adequacy
Derivative terms: Inadequate, Inadequate
Definition of Inadequacy
1. n. The quality or state of being inadequate or insufficient; defectiveness; insufficiency; inadequateness.
Definition of Inadequacy
1. Noun. the state of being inadequate ¹
2. Noun. a shortage of required material ¹
3. Noun. a lack of competence or ability ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inadequacy
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Inadequacy
Literary usage of Inadequacy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence: As Administered in the United States of by John Norton Pomeroy (1882)
"If there is nothing but mere inadequacy of price, the case must be extreme ...
The rule is ordinarily stated that the inadequacy must he so gross that it is ..."
2. The Law of Contracts by William Herbert Page (1919)
"inadequacy of consideration. What amounts to inadequacy of consideration, and
what is the effect of inadequacy of consideration, when it is found to exist, ..."
3. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1898)
"483, it was stated that where the right of redemption exists inadequacy is ...
The later de- • cisions, however, hold that inadequacy of price alone is not ..."
4. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"inadequacy of consideration. If the consideration for a promise is so inadequate
as to warrant the conclusion that the nature of the bargain cannot have ..."
5. Accounting Theory and Practice by Roy Bernard Kester (1918)
"If it can be foreseen intelligently, it should be taken into account in the
estimate of depreciation. inadequacy through Motives of Economy The second type ..."
6. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of the High Court of Chancery by Henry Maddock (1820)
"In regard to Persons not standing in those situations, mere inadequacy of Price,
unless it amount to what is termed, gross inadequacy, is not a ground for ..."
7. The Principles of Equity: A Treatise on the System of Justice Administered by George Tucker Bispham, Joseph Degu McCoy (1916)
"Contracts void by reason of their terms; inadequacy of consideration. THE second
of the classes into which frauds were divided in Chesterfield v. ..."
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