Breadcrumb Home > Thesaurus > S Synonyms of shortfall Find synonyms for: Noun1. deficit, shortage, shortfall, insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiencyusage: the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit"WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.Definition and meaning of shortfall (Dictionary) ✖ Related Content Daily Word Quiz: hortatory Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy Frequently Misspelled Words Frequently Mispronounced Words Easily Confused Words Writing & Language