Meaning of adequate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.
2. appropriate, suitable
3. past participle of adecuar

Equivalents

Examples

“powers adequate to a great work”

“an adequate definition”

“Proportion therefore your Clothes to your bodies, and let them be proper for your persons. […] Agreeableness […] ought to be exact, and adequate both to age, person and condition, avoiding extremities on both sides, being neither too much out, nor in the fashions.”

“Her legal allowance was not adequate to her fortune, nor sufficient for her comfortable maintenance […]”

“1853, Thomas De Quincey, Autobiographic Sketches in Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers, Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, “Dublin,” p. 254, […] in those days, Ireland had no adequate champion; the Hoods and the Grattans were not up to the mark.”

“All day as I drove upon my round I turned over the case in my mind, and found no explanation which appeared to me to be adequate.”

“John was a perfectly adequate academic. A perfectly adequate academic but not a notable teacher.”

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