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Insufficiently means ‘not enough’, or ‘not to a great enough degree’. If you are insufficiently prepared, you did not prepare enough. If a room is insufficiently lit, there is not enough light. It is a rather formal adverb. Though actually, in speech ‘not enough’ or ‘not well enough’ is nearly always more natural. The adverb is useful in careful writing when you want to say the amount or the degree missed the mark — not that something was absent, but that it fell short. It comments on how far something went, not only on whether it happened.
不足地；不夠地
組成From insufficient + -ly, or in- + sufficiently.
同家族的字
- insufficientthe adjective: not enough
- sufficientenough
- sufficientlythe adverb without the ‘not’: to a great enough degree
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
insufficientlyadv
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Not sufficiently.
- The machine was decommissioned because it was producing widgets insufficiently.
- Mr. Tygart, who came to prominence for successfully pursuing doping cases against the track star Marion Jones and the cyclist Lance Armstrong, has long contended that WADA is insufficiently dedicated to holding dopers and their enablers to account.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。