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adequate

[ ad-i-kwit ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

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.
They’ll provide adequate food for fifty people.
Synonyms: capable, enough, sufficient, competent, satisfactory
barely sufficient or suitable:
Being adequate is not good enough.
Law. reasonably sufficient for starting legal action:
adequate grounds.

adequate

/ ˈædɪkwəsɪ; ˈædɪkwɪt /

First recorded in 1610–20; from Latin adaequātus “matched” (past participle of adaequāre ); ad-, equal, -ate ¹

C17: from Latin adaequāre to equalize, from ad- to + aequus equal

“The government failed to show that it had adequate basis for the certification,” he wrote in August.

“I spent about a year criticizing Hillary Clinton for not providing adequate security for Benghazi,” he recalled.

But two years after that, UFW walked away from its negotiations with Gerawan, unable to muster adequate worker support.

“As long as they have an adequate body weight, most women will ovulate just fine, even on marathon weekend,” he says.

The airline industry has failed to give an adequate answer to that.

Judged from this point of view only, the elasticity provided by the new law is doubtless adequate.

First, how about the expansibility needed to supply adequate funds for crop-moving?

Adequate conception of the extent, the variety, the excellence of the works of Art here heaped together is impossible.

In one sense, then, the new issue has adequate expansibility for ordinary needs.

Outsiders lack adequate motives for sending the notes home; issuers lack adequate motives for calling them home.

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