Synonyms of insufficiently

insufficiently

adverb

as in inadequately

Related Words

• inadequately
• improperly
• inappropriately
• wrongly
• incorrectly
• mistakenly
• unpromisingly
• faultily
• badly
• awry
• wrong
• astray
• afield
• amiss

Dissimilar Words

• well
• perfectly
• right
• properly
• favorably
• correctly
• aright
• rightly
• appropriately
• suitably
• promisingly
• auspiciously
• fittingly

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of insufficiently

The group had been considering revoking the endorsement of the council member over her views on Israel, which some considered insufficiently tough. — Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026

At an October debate, Bass pointed out that Raman, as chair of the city council’s housing and homelessness committee, had repeatedly approved spending on Inside Safe, the very program Raman now criticizes as expensive and insufficiently accountable. — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 26 Oct. 2026

Soenen alleges Brown officials were insufficiently responsive to her questions about the process. — Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2026

Internal pressure gave the missile its structural rigidity, meaning the vehicle could buckle if insufficiently pressurized. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2026

Or… 2) Miami is insufficiently impressed and spends its likely very high 2027 first-round draft pick on a QB with the clear intent for the rookie to soon replace Willis. — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2026

Especially exciting to him was the German student movement, which combined support for liberation across the non-Western world with attacks on what the students considered the suffocating (and still insufficiently de-Nazified) Federal Republic. — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2026

The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious, insufficiently consistent with Catholic doctrine, or insufficiently compelling to justify an ecclesiastical policy. — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 26 Aug. 2026

The order also authorizes the Justice Department to challenge state vaccine regulations deemed insufficiently respectful of parental objections. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 17 Aug. 2026