Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

measure; shortcoming &c 304; insufficiency &c 640; imperfection &c 651; immaturity &c (nonpreparation) 674; half measures. [part wanting] defect, deficit, defalcation, omission; caret; shortage; interval &c 198; break &c (discontinuity) 70; noncompletion &c 730; missing link. missing piece, missing part, gap, hole, lacuna. V. be incomplete &c adj.; fall short of &c 304; lack &c (be insufficient) 640; neglect &c 460. Adj. incomplete; imperfect &c 651; unfinished; uncompleted &c (complete) &c 729; defective, deficient, wanting, lacking, failing; in default, in arrear†; short of; hollow, meager, lame, halfand-half, perfunctory, sketchy; crude &c (unprepared) 674. mutilated, garbled, docked, lopped, truncated. in progress, in hand; going on, proceeding. Adv. incompletely &c adj.; by halves. Phr. caetera desunt [Lat.]; caret.