What is another word for "shortcoming"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "shortcoming": addle, alone, and, anvil, arrear, back, balance, battle, become, below, bottom, break, candle, caret, collapse, come, commonalty, complete, contract, contracted, crude, decrease, defalcation, default, defect, defective, deficiency, deficient, deficit, disadvantage, discontinuity, down, drawn, drop, ebb, failing, fall, fiddle, fire, fit.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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