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Interlingua
Adjective
insufficiente (not comparable)
- insufficient
Italian
Etymology
From Latin īnsufficientem. Cognate with Friulian insuficient, Piedmontese insuficent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in.suf.fiˈt͡ʃɛn.te/
- Rhymes: -ɛnte
- Hyphenation: in‧suf‧fi‧cièn‧te
Adjective
insufficiente (plural insufficienti)
- insufficient, inadequate, not enough, unfit
- Synonyms: poco, inadeguato, insoddisfacente, scarso
- Antonym: sufficiente
- (education) fail, below the pass mark, low mark, poor
- Antonym: abbastanza
Derived terms
Further reading
- insufficiente in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana