足らず – vocab dash

足たらず

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Meanings

Suffix

1. less than; under; short of; not even (after an amount)

2. insufficient; lacking (after a noun)

Kanji used

Used in vocabulary

unclear speech; garbled speech; poor enunciation; poorly expressed; unclear (wording); imprecise (expression); inadequate (explanation)

Noun

a little too short; slightly worse; a bit inferior

No-adjective

premature birth

Noun

waka, haiku, etc. with insufficient syllables

Noun

lack of words; being tongue-tied; suppressing what you want to say

Noun

Examples5

彼かれはせいぜい１００ドル足たらずしか持もっていない。

He has a hundred dollars at most.

彼かれのビジネスプランは立りっ派ぱだけど、勘かん定じょうあって銭ぜに足たらず、という気きもするけどね。

His business plan looks good on paper but I get the feeling it would never work in practice.

村むらの郵ゆう便びん局きょくまで１キロ足たらずだった。

It was less than one kilometer to the village post office.

行ゆく手てを阻はばんだものは、高たかさ１メートル足たらずの石いし壁かべでした。

The thing blocking my path was a stone wall of less than 1 meter's height.

私わたしはその仕し事ごとを１いち時じ間かん足たらずで終おえた。

I finished the work in less than an hour.