Inadequate

3 definitions found

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

  Inadequate \In*ad"e*quate\, a. [Pref. in- not + adequate: cf. F.
     inad['e]quat.]
     Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient;
     deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions,
     representations, etc. --Dryden. -- {In*ad"e*quate*ly}, adv.
     -- {In*ad"e*quate*ness}, n.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inadequate
       adj 1: (sometimes followed by `to') not meeting the requirements
              especially of a task; "inadequate training"; "the
              staff was inadequate"; "she was inadequate to the job"
              [ant: {adequate}]
       2: not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a
          poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food
          is in short supply"; "short on experience" [syn: {poor}, {short}]

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

  144 Moby Thesaurus words for "inadequate":
     adulterated, arrested, asymmetric, barren, base, blemished,
     bootless, callow, counterproductive, damaged, defective, deficient,
     disappointing, disheartening, disparate, displeasing,
     disproportionate, dissatisfactory, effete, emasculate, embryonic,
     empty, erroneous, etiolated, failing, fallible, fatuitous, fatuous,
     faulty, feckless, forceless, found wanting, fruitless, futile,
     half-assed, hypoplastic, ill-matched, ill-qualified, ill-sorted,
     immature, impaired, imperfect, impotent, imprecise, impure,
     in arrear, in arrears, in default, in short supply, inaccurate,
     inane, inappreciable, incapable, incommensurate, incompetent,
     incomplete, inconsiderable, ineffective, ineffectual,
     inefficacious, inexact, infant, inferior, inoperative,
     insufficient, invalid, invertebrate, irregular, lacking, little,
     makeshift, maladjusted, maladroit, mean, mediocre, minus,
     mismatched, missing, mixed, needing, not comparable, not enough,
     not equal to, not good enough, not in it, not perfect, not up to,
     nugacious, nugatory, odd, of no force, off, out of it,
     out of proportion, part, partial, patchy, petty, scant, scanty,
     scarce, scrappy, scrimpy, shabby, short, short of, shy, sketchy,
     skew, skewed, skimpy, small, spineless, sterile, too little,
     trivial, unable, unadapted, unadjusted, unavailing, underdeveloped,
     undeveloped, unequal, unequal to, unequipped, uneven, unfinished,
     unfit, unfitted, unfulfilling, ungratifying, unperfected,
     unqualified, unreached, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, unskillful,
     unsound, unsufficing, unthorough, useless, vain, wanting, weak