shortage
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit
Types & categories
- inadequacy hypernym
- oxygen deficit hyponym
Sense 2 noun
an acute insufficiency
Types & categories
- deficiency hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | inadequacy |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | oxygen deficit |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | deficiency |