THESAURUS
shortage
absence, adulteration, arrear, arrearage, arrears, beggary, break, curtailment, dearth, decline, defalcation, default, defect, defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, delinquency, deprivation, destitution, discontinuity, drought, erroneousness, failure, fallibility, falling short, famine, faultiness, gap, hiatus, immaturity, impairment, imperfection, impoverishment, impurity, inaccuracy, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompleteness, inexactitude, inexactness, inferiority, insufficiency, interval, lack, lacuna, mediocrity, missing link, need, omission, outage, patchiness, paucity, pinch, scantiness, scarcity, short measure, shortcoming, shortfall, sketchiness, slump, starvation, tightness, ullage, underage, undevelopment, unevenness, unperfectedness, unsoundness, want, wantage
ROGET THESAURUS
shortage
Incompleteness
N
incompleteness, deficiency, short measure, shortcoming, insufficiency, imperfection, immaturity, half measures, defect, deficit, defalcation, omission, caret,
shortage, interval, break, noncompletion, missing link, missing piece, missing part, gap, hole, lacuna, incomplete, imperfect, unfinished, uncompleted &c (complete), defective, deficient, wanting, lacking, failing, in default, in arrear, short of, hollow, meager, lame, halfand-half, perfunctory, sketchy, crude, mutilated, garbled, docked, lopped, truncated, in progress, in hand, going on, proceeding, incompletely, by halves, caetera desunt, caret.