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

V. be incomplete, fall short of, lack, neglect

Adj. incomplete, imperfect, unfinished, uncompleted &c. (see 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

Adv. incompletely, by halves

Phr. caetera desunt, caret