Adequate

Definitions: Adequate

Adequate

Adjective

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".

2. Enough to meet a purpose; "an adequate income"; "the food was adequate"; "a decent wage"; "enough food"; "food enough".

3. About average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "adequate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Adequate

Imperfection

Indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre; average; so-so; coucicouci, milk and water; tolerable, fair, passable; pretty well, pretty good; rather good, moderately good; good; good enough, well enough, adequate; decent; not bad, not amiss; inobjectionable, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing.

Power

Adjective: powerful, puissant; potential; capable, able; equal to, up to; cogent, valid; efficient, productive; effective, effectual, efficacious, adequate, competent; multipotent, plenipotent, omnipotent; almighty.

Sufficiency

Adjective: sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate, competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible.

Utility

Adequate; efficient, efficacious; effective, effectual; expedient.

Crosswords: Adequate

Congratulations to the class of 1999. You all proved more or less adequate. This is a time of celebration, so: sit still and be quiet. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Well. It seems adequate for its purpose, but I have a feeling that you only brought me to this place to surround yourself with people you know and I don't. (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang)

In future, Commander, let me suggest a perfectly adequate watchmaker just down the street. (Live and Let Die; writing credit: Tom Mankiewicz)

That's Adequate (1989)

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Books

• Adequate Decision Rules for Portfolio Choice Problems (Finance and Capital Market) (reference)

• Adequate Hla Matching in Keratoplasty (Developments in Ophthalmology, V. 36) (reference)

• Adequate Modeling of Systems: Proceedings (reference)

• Devising an Adequate System of Minority Protection: Individual Human Rights, Minority Rights and the Right to Self-Determination (International studi (reference)

• Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Standard of Living Adequate for Development (reference)

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Periodicals

• Budgeting For Basic Needs And Budgeting For Minimum Adequate Standard Of Living (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Thats Adequate (reference)

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Water fills natural depressional areas after heavy rains in north central Iowa. This area has been tiled to allow for rowcroppinng but the tile is not adequate to drain all the water quickly. Soil surveys point out such soil types.Credit: Lynn Betts.

Mrs. Dixon cans an adequate supply of fruits and vegetables to give her family a balanced diet during the winter. Saint Charles County, Missouri.Credit: Library of Congress.

Women in war. Summer canning workers. Why tin cans should be saved. To assure adequate civilian supply of canned produce in the future, householders are urged to save their used cans and turn them in to their local collection agencies, which will send the.Credit: Library of Congress.

Farm families receive adequate medical care under the FSA (Farm Security Administration) medical health program. Saint Charles County, Missouri.Credit: Library of Congress.

Machinery standing in open for lack of adequate shelter. Nelson Brothers farm, one hundred ninety-seven acres, near Dickens, Iowa.Credit: Library of Congress.

A section of Harry Madsen farm near Dickens, Iowa. Hired men are feeding the hogs. This farm is of three hundred sixty acres, owner-operated. Note the adequate buildings for care of livestock and hogs.Credit: Library of Congress.

One of the eight houses built by FSA (Farm Security Administration) to provide adequate shelter for tiff miners. Washington County, Missouri.Credit: Library of Congress.

World federal government with powers adequate to establish, preserve and enforce a law of peace is a minimum essential ...Credit: Library of Congress.

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Hamilton, of New York,) expressing their unanimous conviction that it might essentially tend to advance the interests of the Union if the States by which they were respectively delegated would concur, and use their endeavors to procure the concurrence of the other States, in the appointment of commissioners to meet at Philadelphia on the Second Monday of May following, to take into consideration the situation of the United States; to devise such further provisions as should appear to them necessary to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled as, when agreed to by them and afterwards confirmed by the Legislatures of every State, would effectually provide for the same. (reference)

Bourgeois Socialism attains adequate expression, when, and only when, it becomes a mere figure of speech. (reference)

Adequate notice of the date on which the matter will be considered shall be given to the Government in question. (reference)

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. (reference)

Unless adequate preventive measures are taken to dispel the compulsion inherent in custodial surroundings, no statement obtained from the defendant can truly be the product of his free choice. (reference)

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She was not so materially cast down, however, but that a little time and the return of Harriet were very adequate restoratives.

His great talents had no adequate opportunity.

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Health

The need for adequate support systems is apparent. (references)

Several special groups do not receive adequate LTC services. (references)

For others, the diet plan is safe and nutritionally adequate. (references)

Business

This, however, is unrealistic as they lack adequate funding. (references)

It has not yet been able to develop adequate waste treatment and disposal programs. (references)

The treatment of children at these institutions varies from adequate to deplorable. (references)

Children

Nepal

The lack of adequate antenatal care and widespread malnutrition remain problems. (references)

Bulgaria

Children in these institutions also do not have adequate access to medical care. (references)

Romania

Other issues, such as adequate legislation to protect children, received less attention. (references)

Civil Liberties

Eritrea

Camp facilities were basic, but conditions generally were adequate. (references)

Armenia

Opposition parties and politicians receive adequate news coverage and access to broadcast media. (references)

Albania

Academic freedom, while generally respected, is constrained by lack of resources; public academic institutions do not receive adequate funding. (references)

Economic History

Lithuania

The transportation infrastructure is adequate. (references)

Yemen

Water and sewage services are even less adequate. (references)

Ecuador

Labor-management relations are generally adequate. (references)

Human Rights

Ghana

Its biggest obstacle is a lack of adequate funding. (references)

Madagascar

The authorities do not provide adequate medical care. (references)

Bangladesh

Most prisons are overcrowded and lack adequate facilities. (references)

Indigenous People

Gabon

The Pygmies did not have adequate access to public services. (references)

Thailand

They sometimes are denied adequate education and health care. (references)

Brazil

Due partly to the Government's failure to provide adequate medical care as required by law, indigenous people have suffered epidemics of malaria, measles, and tuberculosis. (references)

Minorities

Nigeria

The political parties also engaged in "zoning," the practice of rotating positions within the party among the different regions and ethnicities to ensure that each region and ethnicity is given adequate representation. (references)

Canada

Provinces other than Quebec often lack adequate French-language schooling and health services, which is of concern to local francophones, although French-language schools and French immersion programs are reported to be thriving in all three prairie provinces. (references)

India

However, various Pandit groups criticized the proposal for failing to address the political aspirations of Pandits, failing to provide economic guarantees, failing to provide adequate security for returning Pandits, and creating special economic zones that would aggravate communal tensions. (references)

Political Economy

Jamaica

The judiciary is generally independent but lacks adequate resources. (references)

ISRAEL

Israel's legal system provides for protection of IPR, but enforcement of IPR laws is not adequate. (references)

ISRAEL

The employment of children age 16 to 18 is limited to ensure adequate time for rest and education. (references)

Political Rights

Burkina Faso

Despite some allegations of fraud, the vote was held without disruption and the CENI generally had adequate staff and personnel to perform its duties. (references)

Kenya

Elected local councils exist, but the executive branch of the central Government has not granted them adequate access to revenue and has restricted their functions. (references)

Mali

Despite governmental pressure to move ahead with decentralization, the nonparliamentary opposition says that the Government is moving too fast and should implement the process step by step as administrators lack adequate funding to govern effectively. (references)

Trade

Bulgaria

Foreign certificates may or may not be considered adequate. (references)

New Zealand

In such cases, a deposit adequate to cover the duty must be made. (references)

Ecuador

These warehouses generally provide adequate facilities and security. (references)

Travel

Kenya

Housing: Adequate housing is available. (references)

Nicaragua

Local hospitals are adequate for basic care. (references)

Nigeria

Hotels in major Nigerian cities are adequate. (references)

Women

Ireland

Women's participation in the workforce is hampered by the lack of adequate childcare facilities. (references)

Afghanistan

Most citizens lack any access to adequate medical facilities, and the provision of health care under Taliban rule remained poor. (references)

Slovak Republic

Experts from women's NGO's claim that the 40 shelters the Government refers to do not provide adequate assistance to women and children. (references)

Worker Rights

Solomon Islands

Safety and health laws appear to be adequate. (references)

Panama

They commonly are deprived of adequate food and shelter. (references)

Liechtenstein

Inspections by the Department for Worker Safety were adequate. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "adequate": adequate grounds ♦ adequate information ♦ adequate measure ♦ adequate measures ♦ adequate to ♦ be adequate ♦ to an adequate degree ♦ weakly adequate grammar. Additional references.

Ending with "adequate": less-than-adequate, more-than-adequate.

Afrikaan

adekwaat. (various references)

Albanian

adekvat, kompetent (able, adept, competent, proficient, qualified), i përshtatshëm (adapt, adjustable, appropriate, becoming, befitting, canny, comely, competent, congruous, convenient, decent, desirable, done, due, elastic, eligible, expedient, fit, fitting, germane, handy, likely, livable, liveable, opportune, Pat, proper, propitious, qualified, rated, relevant, seemly, suitable, suited, tenable, well-becoming, well-suited), i mjaftueshëm (ample, enough, plenty, snug, sufficient). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كفوء (capable, competent, efficient, match, qualified), ‏كاف (appropriate, due, enough, sufficient, suitable), ‏مناسب (agreeable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, conformable, congruent, congruous, convenient, due, expedient, favorable, favourable, feasible, felicitous, fit, fitting, harmonious, in agreement, in conformity, in harmony, opportune, pat, proper, right, seasonable, seemly, suitable, suited, timely), ‏ملائم (acceptable, accordant, adapted, advantageous, agreeable, agreeing, appropriate, apt, becoming, click, compatible, concordant, conformable, conforming, congruent, congruous, consistent, consonant, convenient, expedient, favorable, favourable, feasible, fit, fitting, harmonious, in accord, in agreement, in conformity, in harmony, matching, opportune, proper, propitious, right, seasonable, seemly, suitable, suited, timely), ‏مقبول (acceptable, accepted, agreeable, approved of, fair, fairly, fairly good, passable, reasonable, sanctioned, subscribed to, taken, tolerable), ‏واف بالمراد, ‏صالح (godly, good, make one's peace with, make up, pact, righteous, useful, valid, veracious, welfare, well being). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съразмерен (commensurate, in scale, proportionate, symmetric, symmetrical), съответен (analogous, appropriate, congruent, congruous, consentaneous, correspondent, corresponding, homologous, opposite, parallel, proper, reciprocal, relevant, respective, several), задоволителен (passable, possible, satisfactory, sufficient, well), адекватен, подходящ (adaptable, agreeable, answerable, apposite, appropriate, apt, becoming, congenial, congruent, congruous, convenient, correct, correspondent, fit, fitting, germane, god given, likely, opportune, pointful, proper, propitious, sensible, suitable, suited, sympathetic, worthy), достатъчен (ample, comfortable, competent, enough, good, plenty, satisfactory, sufficient). (various references)

Chinese 

當 (at or in the very same..., during, equal, fitting, just at, manage, match equally, obstruct, on the spot, ought, proper, replace, represent, right, same, should, suitable, to act as, to be, to pawn, when, withstand), 充足 (abundant, sufficient), 充分 (full, sufficiency). (various references)

Czech

vhodný (advisable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apt, becoming, convenient, desirable, eligible, expedient, felicitous, fit, fitting, good, happy, matching, opportune, presentable, proper, propitious, right, sufficient, suitable, suited), přimìřený (appropriate, commensurate, fair, proportional, suitable). (various references)

Danish

adaekvat, adækvat, tilsvarende (equal), daekkende. (various references)

Dutch

adequaat (conforming, fitting). (various references)

Esperanto

adekvata. (various references)

Farsi 

مناسب (Able, Adaptable, Apposite, Appropriate, Apt, Becoming, Convenient, Expedient, Fit, Material, Meet, Moderate, Opportune, Pertain, Proper, Relevant, Suitable, Winsome), موثربودن , متساوی بودن , مساوی ساختن , مساوی (Equal, Even), کافی (Enough), لایق (Able, Capable, Competent, Worthy), تکافوکننده , صلاحیت دار (Able), رسا (Audible, Expressive, Loud, Stentorian), شایسته بودن (Merit), بسنده (Enough). (various references)

Finnish

riittävä (sufficient). (various references)

French

adéquat. (various references)

Frisian

te pas, passend. (various references)

German

ausreichend (d, enough, satisfactory, sufficient, sufficiently, sufficing), entsprechend (according, according to, accordingly, analogical, appropriate, commensurately, complying, conforming, congruent, congruous, considering, consistently, correlative, correspondent, corresponding, corresponding to, correspondingly, equivalent, fitting, homologous, in accordance with, mutatis mutandis, obverse, pertinent, proportionally, proportionate, proportionately, relevant, suitable, suited), angemessen (appropriate, apropos, becoming, befit, commensurate, commensurately, condign, congruous, congruously, fair, fitly, moderate, pertinent, proportionate, proportionately, reasonable, satisfactory, seemly, suitable, suitably, toward, worthily), adäquat (suitable, valid). (various references)

Greek 

επαρκήσ (ample, competent, sufficient), αρκετόσ (enough, hankydory, pretty, sufficient), αρμόζων (becoming, befitting, fit, fitting, pertinent, proper), ανάλογος (analogous, proportionate), αντίστοιχος (counter part, equivalent, opposite colleague, opposite number), ομόλογος (counterpart, homologous). (various references)

Hebrew 

מספיק (ample, enough, sufficient), �"ולם (appropriate, congruous, felicitous, fit, fitting, meet, suitable), �"י (adequacy, enough, plenty, quite, sufficiency, sufficient), � אות (appropriate, beauty, becoming, comeliness, decent, due, fit, proper, seemly, suitable). (various references)

Hungarian

adekvát, kielégítő (hunky-dory, it's not bad, it's not so bad, jake, rewarding, satisfactory, satisfying). (various references)

Icelandic

nógur. (various references)

Indonesian

sedang-sedang (mediocre), secukupnya (sufficient), mampu (apt, efficient, fit, good), cukupan (just enough, mediocre), cukup (adequately, enough, exactly, good-enough, quite, rather, well-to-do). (various references)

Italian

adeguato (comfortable, commensurate, condign, due, just, relevant). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

適切 (appropriate, pertinent, relevance), 十分 (10 minutes, division into ten, enough, fully, in full, perfect, plenty, satisfactory, sufficient, thorough), 充分 (enough, fully, in full, perfect, plenty, satisfactory, sufficient, thorough). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

じゅうぶ�" (compound sentence, division into ten, enough, fully, important national treasure, in full, perfect, plenty, satisfactory, sufficient, thorough), てきせつ (appropriate, pertinent, relevance). (various references)

Korean 

충분한 (Ample, sufficient). (various references)

Manx

dy liooar (ample, enough, galore, umpteen). (various references)

Papiamen

adekuado (conforming, effective, effectual, efficacious, fitting, of use, suitable). (various references)

Pig Latin

adequateay

Portuguese

adequado (apposite, appropriate, apt, conforming, congruous, due, fit, fitting, good, meet, proper, rightdown, seasonable, seemly, suitable). (various references)

Romanian

adecvat (adequately, applicable, appropriate, befitting, condign, fit, likely, meetly, opportune, pertinently, proper, suitable), suficient (adequately, ample, conceited, duly, enough, satisfactory, sufficient, sufficiently), recomandabil (advisable, commendable, commendatory, recommendable, recommendatory), propriu (appropriate, fitting, inherent, intrinsic, own, peculiar, personal, proper, resident, salient, suitable), potrivit (according, according to, ample, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, assorted, average, becoming, befitting, commensurate, condign, congenial, congruous, conservative, correct, corresponding, decorous, due, duly, eligible, felicitous, fit, fitting, in point, likely, middling, moderate, moderately, opportune, Pat, proper, pursuant to, right, seemly, suitable, suited, to), nimerit (apt, convenient, fit, good, likely, opportune, Pat, successful), indicat (expedient, proper), cuveni, corespunzãtor (accordingly, answerable, commensurate, congenial, congruent, correct, correspondent, corresponding, decent, equal, equivalent, fit, fitting, normal, reciprocal, relative, respondent, several, suitable). (various references)

Russian 

соответствующий (accordable, applicate, appropriate, coincident, conformable, conforming, congruent, congruous, consistent with, correct, corresponding, due, pertinent, proper, respective, substantive, suitable, suited, worthy), отвечающий требованиям, адекватный, достаточный (ample, comfortable, competent, decent 2, enough, sufficient). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

adekvatan, dovoljan (enough, satisfying, sufficient). (various references)

Spanish

adecuado (acceptable, appropriate, commensurate, fit, fitting, Pat, pertinent, relevant, suitable, worthily). (various references)

Swedish

adekvat (equivalent), tillräcklig (enough, sufficient), lämplig (adaptable, appropriate, apropos, apt, competent, convenient, due, eligible, expedient, fit, fitted, fitting, likely, opportune, reasonable, seasonable, suitable, timely, useful), funktionsduglig (operational, serviceable, working), betryggande (reassuring). (various references)

Turkish

yeterli (ample, competent, decent, effectual, efficacious, efficient, enough, equal, fit, qualified, satisfactory, satisfying, snug, sufficient, suited, that will do, working), uygun (acceptable, accommodating, adaptable, advisable, agreeable, allowable, answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, calculated, comely, commensurate, comparative, compatible, concordant, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consistent, convenient, cool, correct, decent, done, due, eligible, enjoyable, equal, expedient, fair, fair enough, favorable, favourable, felicitous, fine, fit, fitted, fitting, for, in place, keen, likely, lovely, made to order, matching, meet, nice, opportune, permitting, pertinent, pleasant, proper, propitious, proportional, prosperous, pursuant, relevant, ripe, seasonable, seemly, Square, suitable, suited, tailormade, up to, well, well-matched), elverişli (auspicious, convenient, favourable, opportune, practicable, practical, propitious, prosperous, streamlined, sufficient, suitable, susceptible). (various references)

Ukranian 

компетентний (competent, qualified, sufficient), відповідний (accordant, agreeable, answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, coincident, coincidental, commensurate, concordant, conformable, congruent, congruous, consistent, correspondent, corresponding, fit, homologous, mutual, pertinent, proper, relational, relative, respective, suitable, worthy), відповідати вимогам, адекватний, бути компетентним, бути відповідним, бути достатнім, достатній (affluent, bounteous, enough, passable, snug, sufficient). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xứng đáng; thích hợp, thoả đáng, thích đáng (apposite, appropriate, aptly, due, duly, pertinent, proper), đầy đủ tương xứng, đủ (clear, enough). (various references)

Welsh

digonol (abundant, satisfied, satisfying, sufficient), cyfallwy (perfect, sharp). (various references)

conpetit, satis, sufficiens, sufficientes, sufficientia, sufficientiam, sufficientis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "adequate": adequately, adequateness, adequatenesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "adequate": inadequate. (additional references)

Words containing "adequate": inadequately, inadequateness, inadequatenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Adequate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adakite, adaquate, addiquate, adecuate, adeqouate, adequat, adequats, adequete, adequite, adiquate, aequate, dequate, diquate, iadequate, Sadaquat. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: equated.

-2 letters: equate.

-3 letters: aquae, etude, quate.

-4 letters: aqua, data, date, daut, deet, duet, quad, teed.

-5 letters: ate, dee, due, eat, eau, eta, qat, qua, tad, tae, tau, tea, ted, tee, uta.

+2 letters: adequately, desquamate, inadequate.

+3 letters: desquamated, desquamates, headquarter.

+4 letters: adequateness, headquarters, inadequately, quartersawed, reacquainted.

+5 letters: headquartered, quarterbacked.

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