The word deficient we use it in our language when we want to express that which is imperfect or that has been badly done. This report is flawed from beginning to end, please rewrite it.
On the other hand, we also use the word deficient to say that something turns out to be insufficient and for example does not reach the level that it should achieve, or that is expected. The money you gave me is deficient if we take into account all the expenses that we have this month.
Also, it is common for us to use the word to designate that person with learning and cognitive development difficulties.
At educational field of some places, the word deficient is a type of negative rating that exists to evaluate exams.
Meanwhile, the very poor rating is placed when the performance is still lower than tolerable for simply applying a poor.
It should be noted that the word deficient is closely linked to another concept, that of deficiency, which refers to failure or lack of perfection presented by something or someone. Also, it is frequent that these concepts are used to talk about the deficiencies in some aspect.
One of the issues that is commonly spoken of as deficiency is with respect to the health of a person. For example, when an individual presents difficulties to get around and also to coordinate the movements of your body you will be in front of what medicine calls motor impairment.
It consists of a deficiency in neurons that is what causes these displacement problems mentioned.
For its part, the mental deficiency, is another type of problem very common in human beings and that implies a lack of development in the intellectual capacity of the person.
One of the most commonly used synonyms for this word is imperfect that refers to what is not perfect and has defects.
The concept that is directly opposed to the deficient is that of perfect, which precisely allows us to refer to the excellent conditions that a piece presents, for example, and that then they do not present any type of defect or missing.
