Underfunded

Synonyms for "underfunded" (20 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (4)

Adjective(3 words)
destitute personemaciatedinadequately funded
Noun(1 words)
most unsupported

Strong matches (6)

Verb(1 words)
Noun(1 words)
Adjective(4 words)
policy driven underfundingpoor presentationpoor-resourcepoorly funded

Related words (10)

Noun(1 words)
state neglect
Adjective(9 words)
systemic underfundingthe impoverishedunderallocateundercapitalizeundercapitalizedunderfinancedunderfinanced relative to needsunderresourcedunfunded

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

7 entries
budget policy outcomebudgetary conditionfinancefiscal policy outcomefundfunding arrangementfunding status

More specific

13 entries
campus funding gapspeer underfundingpublic service underfundingregional underfundingresearch funding cutssectoral underfundingunderbudgetingundercapitalizationunderfunded hospitalsunderfunded infrastructureunderfunded schoolsunderfundingunderresourcing

Collocations

9 entries
underfunded healthcareunderfunded infrastructureunderfunded laboratoryunderfunded programunderfunded programsunderfunded researchunderfunded schoolsunderfunding crisisunderfunding gap

Inflections

4 entries
more underfundedmost underfundedunderfundingunderfunds

Derivations

3 entries

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

As too often, those trumpeting the benefits of globalization have ignored inequality within and among nations; have ignored the enduring appeal of ethnic and sectarian identities; have left international institutions ill-equipped, underfunded, under-resourced, in order to handle transnational challenges.

Source: tatoeba (5774018)

Tuberculosis is a vicious epidemic that is drastically underfunded. That was the takeaway message from the first high-level meeting focused on the infectious disease at the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

Source: tatoeba (12123481)

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