adequate

Speech parts

1. adequate - Adjective

2. adequate - Verb

3. adequate - Adjective Satellite

4. adequate - Determiner

Meaning

Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition.

To equalize; to make adequate.

To equal.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

enough equal capable sufficient suitable competent tolerable passable fair to middling hep right just able good average

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Antonyms

inadequate short great little special capital

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Phrases with the word

adequate sleep adequate diet adequate nutrition adequate food adequate information be adequate

Examples

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. Margaret Fuller

To live effectively is to live with adequate information. Norbert Wiener

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. William Howard Taft

It may be that there is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. Edmund Wilson

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. Simone de Beauvoir

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future. Zelda Fitzgerald

Close letter words and terms

adequacy in nutrition adequal adequality adequate amount adequate amount of adequate behavior