Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun shortfall

1 sense of shortfall

Sense 1
deficit, shortage, shortfall -- (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")
       => insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency -- (lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits")