unprovided

Lacking what's needed

Unprovided means not supplied or furnished with something needed or expected.

If you are unprovided for, you lack necessary support or resources, particularly financial ones: She worried about leaving her children unprovided for.

The word can also describe situations where something essential is missing or has not been arranged: The contract left several contingencies unprovided for.

It appears most often in formal or legal contexts.

deficient

inadequate

Not sufficient for purpose

insufficientBelow required quantity
lackingBeing without something
shortOf limited extent

incomplete · limited · meager · sparse · scarce · paltry · skimpy · substandard · poor · weak

desire

wanting

Absent or insufficient

yearningIntense prolonged craving
longingIntense, persistent desire
cravingPowerful urge to have

wishing · hoping · pining · thirsting · aching · hungering · needing · coveting · aspiring · dreaming

empty

vacant

Without an occupant

voidWithout legal effect
bareLacking any covering
barrenUnable to produce

hollow · blank · devoid · unfilled · unoccupied · cleared · drained · depleted · exhausted · stripped

absent

missing

Not present, whereabouts unknown

goneNo longer present
awayNot in this location
unavailableCannot be accessed

vanished · departed · disappeared · lost · nonexistent · omitted · unaccounted · AWOL · truant · elsewhere

Opposites

supply/equipment status

unprovidedprovided

Supplied or given

supplied · equipped · furnished · stocked · provisioned

preparedness/readiness

unprovidedprepared

Made ready beforehand

equipped · ready · set up · provisioned · resourced

Family

provide, provided, provisions, provision, providing, provider, provisional, provides, providence

Familiarity: Top 500,000
Profile: Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G