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Inadequate

Inadequate Meaning & Definition
Inadequate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Inadequate?

[adj] (sometimes followed by `to') not meeting the requirements especially of a task; "inadequate training"; "the staff was inadequate"; "she was inadequate to the job"
[adj] not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Inadequate: deficient | incapable | incompetent | insufficient | lacking(p) | poor | short | short-handed | short-staffed | undermanned | understaffed | unequal to(p) | wanting(p)

Related Terms | Find terms related to Inadequate: adulterated | arrested | asymmetric | barren | base | blemished | bootless | callow | counterproductive | damaged | defective | deficient | disappointing | disheartening | disparate | displeasing | disproportionate | dissatisfactory | effete | emasculate | embryonic | empty | erroneous | etiolated | failing | fallible | fatuitous | fatuous | faulty | feckless | forceless | found wanting | fruitless | futile | half-assed | hypoplastic | ill-matched | ill-qualified | ill-sorted | immature | impaired | imperfect | impotent | imprecise | impure | in arrear | in arrears | in default | in short supply | inaccurate | inane | inappreciable | incapable | incommensurate | incompetent | incomplete | inconsiderable | ineffective | ineffectual | inefficacious | inexact | infant | inferior | inoperative | insufficient | invalid | invertebrate | irregular | lacking | little | makeshift | maladjusted | maladroit | mean | mediocre | minus | mismatched | missing | mixed | needing | not comparable | not enough | not equal to | not good enough | not in it | not perfect | not up to | nugacious | nugatory | odd | of no force | off | out of it | out of proportion | part | partial | patchy | petty | scant | scanty | scarce | scrappy | scrimpy | shabby | short | short of | shy | sketchy | skew | skewed | skimpy | small | spineless | sterile | too little | trivial | unable | unadapted | unadjusted | unavailing | underdeveloped | undeveloped | unequal | unequal to | unequipped | uneven | unfinished | unfit | unfitted | unfulfilling | ungratifying | unperfected | unqualified | unreached | unsatisfactory | unsatisfying | unskillful | unsound | unsufficing | unthorough | useless | vain | wanting | weak

See Also | unsatisfactory

Inadequate In Webster's Dictionary

\In*ad"e*quate\, a. [Pref. in- not + adequate: cf. F. inad['e]quat.] Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions, representations, etc. --Dryden. -- {In*ad"e*quate*ly}, adv. -- {In*ad"e*quate*ness}, n.

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