adequate

[ ad-i-kwit ]

/ ˈæd ɪ kwɪt /

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adjective

as much or as good as necessary for some requirement or purpose; fully sufficient, suitable, or fit (often followed by to or for): This car is adequate to our needs. adequate food for fifty people.

barely sufficient or suitable: Being adequate is not good enough.

Law. reasonably sufficient for starting legal action: adequate grounds.

Origin of adequate

1610–20; < Latin adaequātus matched (past participle of adaequāre). See ad-, equal, -ate¹

SYNONYMS FOR adequate

1 satisfactory, competent, sufficient, enough; capable.

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OTHER WORDS FROM adequate

ad·e·quate·ly, adverb ad·e·quate·ness, noun pre·ad·e·quate, adjective pre·ad·e·quate·ly, adverb

pre·ad·e·quate·ness, noun qua·si-ad·e·quate, adjective qua·si-ad·e·quate·ly, adverb su·per·ad·e·quate, adjective su·per·ad·e·quate·ly, adverb su·per·ad·e·quate·ness, noun

Words nearby adequate

adeodatus i, adeodatus ii, adephagia, adept, adequacy, adequate, adequate stimulus, adermia, adermogenesis, adessive, adf

Example sentences from the Web for adequate

“The government failed to show that it had adequate basis for the certification,” he wrote in August.

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“As long as they have an adequate body weight, most women will ovulate just fine, even on marathon weekend,” he says.

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The airline industry has failed to give an adequate answer to that.

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On paper, the forces in Tikrit should have been more than adequate to repel even a force of this size.

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When training for shorter durations, plain water is adequate.

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Like all revelations of the better life, the adequate perception of a great work demands a gifted simplicity of vision.

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Obando involved himself in quarrels with the Mussulman inhabitants of Mindanao, for which he had made no adequate preparation.

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We are unsure of the inward way, and our available resources are not yet adequate to this type of exploration.

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This is saying in so many words that the science of the materialist is adequate for the proof that his opponent knows nothing.

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Please see to it that an adequate supply of cars to move this freight are side-tracked here on time.

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British Dictionary definitions for adequate

adequate

/ (ˈædɪkwɪt) /

adjective

able to fulfil a need or requirement without being abundant, outstanding, etc

Derived forms of adequate

adequacy (ˈædɪkwəsɪ), noun adequately, adverb

Word Origin for adequate

C17: from Latin adaequāre to equalize, from ad- to + aequus equal

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