- insufficient; inadequate; imperfect
adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi); noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
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Japanese literature, in spite of its beauty and riches, is as yet inadequately known in the West.
The Japanese are often criticized for being inward looking and insufficiently international in their outlook.
Perception is based, to a very large extent, on conceptual models - which are always inadequate, often incomplete and sometimes profoundly wrong.
This complex situation arose because signals from the environment itself can be inadequate.