adequately
Use Adequately in a sentence
ɪ adjective
1.
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.
2.
barely sufficient or suitable: Being adequate is not good enough.
3.
Law. reasonably sufficient for starting legal action: adequate grounds.
Related forms
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
Synonyms
1. satisfactory, competent, sufficient, enough; capable.
1. satisfactory, competent, sufficient, enough; capable.
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| —adj | |
| able to fulfil a need or requirement without being abundant, outstanding, etc | |
| [C17: from Latin adaequāre to equalize, from ad- to + aequus | |
| adequacy | |
| —n | |
| 'adequately | |
| —adv | |
| adequate (ˈædɪkwɪt) | |
| —adj | |
| able to fulfil a need or requirement without being abundant, outstanding, etc | |
| [C17: from Latin adaequāre to equalize, from ad- to + aequus | |
| adequacy | |
| —n | |
| 'adequately | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
adequate
1610s, from L. adæquatus "equalized," pp. of adæquare "to make equal to," from ad- "to" + æquare "make level," from æquus (see equal). The sense is of being "equal to what is required."
adequately
1620s, from adequate; originally a term in logic in ref. to correspondence of ideas and objects. Meaning "suitably" is recorded from 1680s.
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Example sentences
Let's get back to adequately funding community colleges and we'll see a pronounced difference in the number of college graduates.
No single mechanism adequately explains why brains age.
The links aren't, however, frequent or adequately understood enough to have diagnostic or treatment value yet.
Jurors in this case said that term was not adequately defined.
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