deficient

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /dɪˈfɪʃənt/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who is deficient.
    — This was justified by the rationale that mental deficients, by definition, are not able to succeed in society.
形容词 adj.
  1. Lacking something essential; often construed with in.
    — They were deficient in social skills.
  2. Insufficient or inadequate in amount.
    — Apothecia lecanoroid; multilocular; each cell containing a single theke; paraphyses deficient.
  3. Of a number n, Having the sum of divisors σ(n)<2n, or, equivalently, the sum of proper divisors (or aliquot sum) s(n)<n.

词形变化

more deficient comparative most deficient superlative deficients plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bideficient biodeficient deficient-demand unemployment deficiently deficientness deficient number demand-deficient unemployment haplodeficient hyperdeficient immunodeficient indeficient mental deficient multideficient nondeficient phosphodeficient pseudodeficient rank-deficient self-deficient undeficient
相关词
defect defection defective defector deficiency deficit

词源

词源 1
From Latin deficiens, present participle of deficere (“to lack, fail, be wanting”); see defect.
词源 2
From Latin deficiens, present participle of deficere (“to lack, fail, be wanting”); see defect.
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