Usually means: Insufficiency to meet necessary standards.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word inadequacy:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. inadequacy: Merriam-Webster
  2. inadequacy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inadequacy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inadequacy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inadequacy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inadequacy, inadequacy: Wordnik
  7. inadequacy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inadequacy: Wiktionary
  9. inadequacy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inadequacy: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. inadequacy: Dictionary.com
  12. inadequacy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Inadequacy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. inadequacy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. inadequacy: Rhymezone
  16. Inadequacy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. inadequacy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. inadequacy: FreeDictionary.org
  19. inadequacy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. inadequacy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. inadequacy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. inadequacy: Legal dictionary
  2. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inadequacy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inadequacy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The state of being inadequate.
noun:  A shortage of required material.
noun:  A lack of competence or ability.

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