Adequate

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Adequate \Ad"e*quate\, a. [L. adaequatus, p. p. of adaequare to
     make equal to; ad + aequare to make equal, aequus equal. See
     {Equal}.]
     Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent;
     fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an
     adequate definition.


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           Ireland had no adequate champion.        --De Quincey.
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     Syn: Proportionate; commensurate; sufficient; suitable;
          competent; capable.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Adequate \Ad"e*quate\, v. t. [See {Adequate}, a.]
     1. To equalize; to make adequate. [R.] --Fotherby.
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     2. To equal. [Obs.]
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              It [is] an impossibility for any creature to
              adequate God in his eternity.         --Shelford.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  adequate
       adj 1: (sometimes followed by `to') meeting the requirements
              especially of a task; "she had adequate training";
              "her training was adequate"; "she was adequate to the
              job" [ant: {inadequate}]
       2: enough to meet a purpose; "an adequate income"; "the food
          was adequate"; "a decent wage"; "enough food"; "food
          enough" [syn: {decent}, {enough}]
       3: about average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a
          secretary" [syn: {passable}, {fair to middling}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  74 Moby Thesaurus words for "adequate":
     OK, able, acceptable, admissible, all right, ample, average,
     barely sufficient, better than nothing, capable, comfortable,
     commensurate, common, competent, corresponding, decent, due,
     effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, enough, equal,
     equal to, fair, fair to middling, fairish, fit, fitted, fitting,
     good, good enough, goodish, middling, minimal, minimum, moderate,
     no great shakes, not amiss, not bad, not half bad, not so bad,
     okay, passable, plenty, plenty good enough, presentable,
     pretty good, productive, proficient, proper, proportionable,
     proportionate, qualified, respectable, satisfactory, satisfying,
     so so, substantial, sufficient, sufficient for, sufficing,
     suitable, suited, tidy, tolerable, unexceptionable, unexceptional,
     unimpeachable, unobjectionable, up, up to, up to snuff,
     workmanlike