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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Scarce, inadequate and not enough
be at a premiumidiom
be thin on the groundidiom
chronic shortage
dearth
dearth of something
gold dust
lack
lacking
like gold dustidiom
long on something and short on somethingidiom
lousy
meagre
scarcity
scrubby
shortage
shortfall
shortness
shy
skinny
thin

devoid | American Dictionary

devoid
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/dɪˈvɔɪd/
 devoid of
Someone or something is devoid of something when it is completely lacking:
He seems to be devoid of any feeling for his parents.

Examples of devoid

devoid
This ridge is solid, prominent and devoid of any spines.
All other solutions of this type are devoid of physical meaning.
Repetition of lines through rehearsals and performances often produced 'a habit of mechanical speech on the stage', devoid of any emotion.
He thus produced a natural history that was devoid of any narrative notions or patterns of development.
Both mathematical models represent the ideal conditions devoid of external factors that can skew the actual data with interacting age-related and period-related confounders.
If he had used stationary police units as his defining example, his hypothesis would have been devoid of any real content.
First, the implicational universals concerning phonological inventories are devoid of empirical content since the theory does allow for ' accidental ' gaps to occur.
Proceeding from (b), as new cell wall formation continues to form during cytokinesis, these areas are devoid of surface projections.
Furthermore, houses are devoid of proper ventilation and enclosures for the animals are made within the household compound, leading to poor environmental sanitation.
Due to the prior production profile, the rural areas are devoid of a substantial middle class.
The invertebrate immune system is devoid of antibodies that detect primarily peptide antigens in the vertebrate immune system.
By 2 weeks of treatment, cc-1 immunolabeling shows the corpus callosum to be devoid of oligodendrocytes.
If analysis devoid of empirical support is of only temporary interest, predictions without an accompanying analysis can be misleading, sometimes deeply so.
Poverty surveys are usually devoid of a detailed understanding of the particular social practices and cultures in the lives of the poor.
The maturation spot is a small region of the animal cortex, relatively devoid of pigment, that develops at the site of first polar body extrusion.
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