About The Word Adequate
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Adequate
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What's The Definition Of Adequate?
[adj] (sometimes followed by `to') meeting the requirements especially of a task; "she had adequate training"; "her training was adequate"; "she was adequate to the job"
[adj] about average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary" [adj] enough to meet a purpose; "an adequate income"; "the food was adequate"; "a decent wage"; "enough food"; "food enough" Synonyms | Synonyms for Adequate: adequate to(p) | capable | competent | decent | enough | equal to(p) | fair to middling | passable | sufficient | up to(p) Related Terms | Find terms related to Adequate: able | acceptable | admissible | all right | ample | average | barely sufficient | better than nothing | capable | comfortable | commensurate | common | competent | corresponding | decent | due | effective | effectual | efficacious | efficient | enough | equal | equal to | fair | fair to middling | fairish | fit | fitted | fitting | good | good enough | goodish | middling | minimal | minimum | moderate | no great shakes | not amiss | not bad | not half bad | not so bad | OK | okay | passable | plenty | plenty good enough | presentable | pretty good | productive | proficient | proper | proportionable | proportionate | qualified | respectable | satisfactory | satisfying | so so | substantial | sufficient | sufficient for | sufficing | suitable | suited | tidy | tolerable | unexceptionable | unexceptional | unimpeachable | unobjectionable | up | up to | up to snuff | workmanlike See Also | satisfactory Adequate In Webster's Dictionary \Ad"e*quate\, a. [L. adaequatus, p. p. of adaequare to
make equal to; ad + aequare to make equal, aequus equal. See
{Equal}.]
Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent;
fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an
adequate definition.
Ireland had no adequate champion. --De Quincey.
Syn: Proportionate; commensurate; sufficient; suitable;
competent; capable.
\Ad"e*quate\, v. t. [See {Adequate}, a.] 1. To equalize; to make adequate. [R.] --Fotherby. 2. To equal. [Obs.] It [is] an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity. --Shelford. |
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