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"the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"nounlack of an adequate quantity or number
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noununsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate
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"juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents"nouna lack of competence
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Definition that contains inadequacy
- shame a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt
- depression a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
- depression sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
- depressing causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
- embarrassment the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public
- embarrassment the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy)
- arraign accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy
- koan a paradoxical anecdote or a riddle that has no solution; used in Zen Buddhism to show the inadequacy of logical reasoning
- cheerless causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
- uncheerful causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy