Usually means: Lacking in some necessary aspect.
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  1. deficiently: Merriam-Webster
  2. deficiently: Collins English Dictionary
  3. deficiently: Vocabulary.com
  4. deficiently: Wordnik
  5. deficiently: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. deficiently: Wiktionary
  7. deficiently: Dictionary.com
  8. deficiently: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deficiently: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deficiently: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. deficiently: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (deficiently)

▸ adverb:  In a deficient manner.

Similar:
defectively, inadequately, inadeptly, deprivedly, meanly, substandardly, unproficiently, incompetently, degradedly, disadvantageously, more...

Opposite:
abundantly, sufficiently, satisfactorily, adequately

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Similar:
defectively, inadequately, inadeptly, deprivedly, meanly, substandardly, unproficiently, incompetently, degradedly, disadvantageously, more...

Opposite:
abundantly, sufficiently, satisfactorily, adequately



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