What is another word for insufficiently?

Pronunciation: [ɪnsəfˈɪʃəntli] (IPA)

When writing, it is important to avoid repetition of words. One word that is commonly used is "insufficiently" but it can easily become monotonous. Here are a few useful synonyms to replace this word, such as inadequately, deficiently, unsatisfactorily, incompletely, weakly, deficiently, and poorly. Each of these synonyms gives a slightly different nuance to the meaning of the word and can help to add variety to your writing. By avoiding redundancy, your writing will become more engaging, interesting, and clear. So the next time you find yourself using "insufficiently" multiple times, try out some of these synonyms to make your writing pop.

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What are the hypernyms for Insufficiently?

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What are the opposite words for insufficiently?

Antonyms are words that have opposite meanings to each other. The word "insufficiently" implies a lack or inadequacy of something. Therefore, antonyms for "insufficiently" would be words that convey the opposite meaning of abundance, plenty, or sufficiency. Some examples of antonyms for "insufficiently" are adequately, abundantly, sufficiently, plentifully, adequately, satisfactorily, and suitably. These antonyms denote the presence of enough or the quality of fulfilling requirements. They indicate that there is a surplus or more than enough, creating a sense of comfort and security. Using antonyms helps to add color and depth to language, and it aids in communication, thereby providing clarity and precision.

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Usage examples for Insufficiently

The night was a bitterly cold one, and the girl, insufficiently clothed as well as unfed, shivered as she went into the room.
"A Very Naughty Girl"
L. T. Meade
They are a standing refutation of Ruskin's words-"I have never seen any work of his in which there were signs of his being able to draw, and hence the most necessary details are painted by him insufficiently."
"Constable"
C. Lewis Hind
The subjective is that which is only insufficiently thought, as in the case of relativity and error; the objective is that which is completely thought.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry

Famous quotes with Insufficiently

  • Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
    Plato
  • A willingness to satisfy contradictory objections to one's manner of writing might turn one's work into the donkey that finally found itself being carried by its masters, since some readers suggest that quotation marks are disruptive of pleasant progress; others, that notes to what should be complete are a pedantry or evidence of an insufficiently realized task. But since in anything I have written, there have been lines in which the chief interest is borrowed, and I have not yet been able to outgrow this hybrid method of composition, acknowledgements seem only honest. Perhaps those who are annoyed by provisos, detainments, and postscripts could be persuaded to take probity on faith and disregard the notes.
    Marianne Moore
  • Perhaps there was too much of religion in one sense; the word is English, smacks too much of things external such as creeds, rites, an external piety; there is no one Indian equivalent. But if we give rather to religion the sense of the following of the spiritual impulse in its fullness and define spirituality as the attempt to know and live in the highest self, the divine, the all-embracing unity and to raise life in all its parts to the divinest possible values, then it is evident that there was not too much of religion, but rather too little of it — and in what there was, a too one-sided and therefore an insufficiently ample tendency. The right remedy is, not to belittle still farther the agelong ideal of India, but to return to its old amplitude and give it a still wider scope, to make in very truth all the life of the nation a religion in this high spiritual sense. This is the direction in which the philosophy, poetry, art of the West is, still more or less obscurely, but with an increasing light, beginning to turn, and even some faint glints of the truth are beginning now to fall across political and sociological ideals.
    Sri Aurobindo
  • The room was not a room to elevate the soul. Louis XIV, to pick a name at random, would not have liked it, would have found it not sunny enough, and insufficiently full of mirrors. He would have desired someone to pick up the socks, put the records away, and maybe burn the place down. Michelangelo would have been distressed by its proportions, which were neither lofty nor shaped by any noticeable inner harmony or symmetry, other than that all parts of the room were pretty much equally full of old coffee mugs, shoes and brimming ashtrays, most of which were now sharing their tasks with each other. The walls were painted in almost precisely that shade of green which Raffaello Sanzio would have bitten off his own right hand at the wrist rather than use, and Hercules, on seeing the room, would probably have returned half an hour later armed with a navigable river. It was, in short, a dump, and was likely to remain so for as long as it remained in the custody of Mr Svlad, or 'Dirk', Gently, né Cjelli.
    Douglas Adams
  • Be neither insufficiently spirited nor over spirited. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.
    Miyamoto Musashi

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