inadequacy

英 [ɪn'ædɪkwəsi] 美 [ɪn'ædɪkwəsi]

• n. 不充分；不足；不胜任；缺乏信心；缺陷

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 不充分，不充足
2. 不适当，不适合（性）
3. 不完全，不够，不十分
4. 不足，缺乏
5. 缺陷，缺点，毛病，弱点
6. 【医】官能不足
7. 机能不全
8. 不健全
9. 不妥之处
10. 不免孤陋
11. 不胜任
12. 缺乏信心

英英释义

Noun:

1. lack of an adequate quantity or number;

   "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"
   

2. a lack of competence;

   "pointed out the insufficiencies in my report"
   "juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents"
   

3. unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. What symptom can Morpheus inadequacy cause?
   睡眠不足会引起什么症状？
2. The failure is due to the inadequacy of preparations.
   这次失败是由于准备不足造成的。
3. Dwelling on the impossible leads to a sense of inadequacy.
   老是想着不可能的事会导致信心不足。
4. He had to face up to his own inadequacies as a father.
   他不得不正视自身作为父亲的不足。

经典引文

• Lives were being thrown away through the inadequacy of the medical services in the Mediterranean.

  出自： V. Brittain

• A perpetual feeling of unworthinesssa sense of inadequacy attendant on a life of self-examination.

  出自： R. Bush

• People..who confess their inadequacies or even villainies.

  出自：Maledicta

词汇搭配

• renal inadequacy 肾机能不全
• nutritional inadequacy 营养不足,营养不全...
• dietary inadequacy 饮食不适当,饮食失调...
• cardiac inadequacy [医] 心机能不全...
• immunologic inadequacy 免疫功能不全...
• reserve for inadequacy [经] 不充足(不敷...

近反义词

【近义词】

• shortcoming 缺点
• insufficiency 缺乏
• scantiness 缺乏
• lack 缺乏
• shortage 不足
• shortfall 不足
• fault 缺点
• scarcity 缺乏
• failure 失败
• failing 失败
• incompetence 无能力
• defectiveness 有缺陷
• defect 缺点
• problem 问题
• inadequateness 不适当
• deficiency 缺乏

【反义词】

• adequacy 足够