It is difficult to overcome this shortcoming without drastically changing the whole system.
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Shortcoming
//ˈʃɔːtˌkʌmɪŋ//
Synonyms for "shortcoming" (107 found)
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Related words (53)
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52 translations across 23 languages.
Belarusian
1 entries- недахо́п noun (deficiency)
Bulgarian
2 entries- дефицит noun (deficiency)
- недостиг noun (deficiency)
Catalan
2 entries- defecte noun (deficiency)
- mancança noun (deficiency)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 不足之處 /不足之处 noun (deficiency)
Czech
1 entries- nedostatek noun (deficiency)
Finnish
3 entries- puute noun (deficiency)
- vajavuus noun (deficiency)
- vika noun (deficiency)
French
4 entries- carence noun (deficiency)
- défaut noun (deficiency)
- imperfection noun (deficiency)
- lacune noun (deficiency)
German
2 entries- Manko noun (deficiency)
- Schwäche noun (deficiency)
Hebrew
1 entries- מגרעה noun (deficiency)
Italian
4 entries- carenza noun (deficiency)
- debolezze noun (deficiency)
- imperfezione noun (deficiency)
- lacuna noun (deficiency)
Japanese
2 entries- 欠点 noun (deficiency)
- 短所 noun (deficiency)
Korean
2 entries- 결점 noun (deficiency)
- 부족점 noun (deficiency)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- brist noun (deficiency)
- svakhet noun (deficiency)
- tilkortkommenhet noun (deficiency)
- utilstrekkelighet noun (deficiency)
Polish
4 entries- defekt noun (deficiency)
- mankament noun (deficiency)
- niedociągnięcie noun (deficiency)
- uchybienie noun (deficiency)
Portuguese
2 entries- deficiência noun (deficiency)
- limitação noun (deficiency)
Russian
2 entries- дефе́кт noun (deficiency)
- недоста́ток noun (deficiency)
Spanish
4 entries- carencia noun (deficiency)
- defecto noun (deficiency)
- deficiencia noun (deficiency)
- déficit noun (deficiency)
Swahili
1 entries- dosari noun (deficiency)
Swedish
3 entries- brist noun (deficiency)
- svaghet noun (deficiency)
- tillkortakommande noun (deficiency)
Turkish
1 entries- eksik noun (deficiency)
Ukrainian
1 entries- недо́лік noun (deficiency)
Urdu
1 entries- کوتاہی noun (deficiency)
Uzbek
1 entries- nuqson noun (deficiency)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
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Her most serious shortcoming seemed to be a tendency to fall into daydreams in the middle of a task and forget all about it until such time as she was sharply recalled to earth by a reprimand or a catastrophe.
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The shortcoming in infancy is, first off, not knowing the horrible, and secondly, fearing that which should not be feared. The same occurs to the natural man; he ignores where horror truly lies, where the grips of trembles never falter, but rather, shivers at what is not horrible.
Source: tatoeba (9241151)
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