 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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" [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adequate \Ad"e*quate\, verb (used with an object) [See {Adequate}, adjective]
1. To equalize; to make adequate. [R.] --Fotherby.
2. To equal. [Obs.]
It [is] an impossibility for any creature to
adequate God in his eternity. --Shelford.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adequate \Ad"e*quate\, adjective [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.
Ireland had no adequate champion. --De Quincey.
Syn: Proportionate; commensurate; sufficient; suitable;
competent; capable.
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
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