{
    "term": "insufficient",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "not large, strong or important enough for a particular purpose",
            "sensetop": "insufficient to do somethinginsufficient for something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "insufficient time"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The management paid insufficient attention to working conditions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are fears that the existing flood barrier may prove insufficient."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I’m afraid we have insufficient evidence."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His salary is insufficient to meet his needs.",
                    "contextForm": "insufficient to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The plan was to refurbish the whole building but the funds raised were insufficient for the purpose.",
                    "contextForm": "insufficient for something"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "prove"],
                "adverb": ["quite", "wholly", "simply"],
                "preposition": ["for"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌɪnsəˈfɪʃnt/",
                "audio": "in/insufficient/insufficient__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌɪnsəˈfɪʃnt/",
                "audio": "in/insufficient/insufficient__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘incapable, incompetent’): via Old French from late Latin insufficient- ‘not sufficing’, from in- ‘not’ + Latin sufficere ‘put under, meet the need of’ (from sub- ‘under’ + facere ‘make’)."
}