adequate
Adjective
- Sufficient for a specific need or requirement.
- having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task
- "she had adequate training"
- "her training was adequate"
- "she was adequate to the job"
Adjective Satellite
- sufficient for the purpose
- "an adequate income"
- "the food was adequate"
- about average; acceptable
- "more than adequate as a secretary"
Adj
- Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.
Det
- A sufficient amount of; enough.
Verb
- To equalize; to make adequate.
- To equal.
Examples
- A score of twenty is adequate, but we were hoping for much more.
- an adequate definition
- powers adequate to a great work
- We have adequate money for the journey.
Origin / Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin adaequātus, perfect passive participle of adaequō (“to make equal to”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from ad (“to, towards, at”) + aequō (“to make equal, equalize”), from aequus (“equal”). Cognate with French adéquat.
Synonyms
decent, enough, equal, fair to middling, passable, tolerable, acceptable, correspondent, proportionate, satisfactory, sufficient
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 18
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