shortcoming

Noun

Meaning

The act of falling, or coming short

The failure of a crop, or the like.

Neglect of, or failure in, performance of duty.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

failing defect problem issue lack failure want error difficulty hole vice trouble default deficit mistake
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Antonyms

paragon diamond power addition service influence
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Hypernyms

disadvantage

Related terms

shortfall fall short come up short shortcomer

Examples

As for population, every major shortcoming of our native planet could be traced to one cause: too many people, not enough planet. Robert A. Heinlein

A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism. Aldous Huxley

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture. Steven Pinker

I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody. Ann Patchett

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical. Hermann Broch

A mans greatest shortcoming is that he neglects his own field and weeds that of others. Chinese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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