adequate
- 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. adequate food for fifty people.
- barely sufficient or suitable: Being adequate is not good enough.
- Law. reasonably sufficient for starting legal action: adequate grounds.
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sufficiently, competently, satisfactorily, appropriately, decently, abundantly, modestly, suitably, acceptably, capably, copiously, fittingly, tolerablyExamples from the Web for adequately
Contemporary Examples of adequately
Regrettably, not many of them have been adequately translated.
American universities have come under censure for failing to adequately protect students from sexual and physical assault.
“There appears to be no evidence that [Rudy] … is unable to adequately plan for care for his daughter,” he wrote.
Some critics believe that the problem is a result of the military not adequately enforcing its own regulations.
Caught Between Military and Civilian Justice, a Battered Wife Waits and Waits for HelpJacob Siegel
April 21, 2014
I am also frustrated that the administration has not adequately consulted with Congress regarding U.S. policy towards Egypt.
Historical Examples of adequately
That which we do not believe we cannot adequately say, though we may repeat the words never so often.
Essays, First SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson
The subject is a great one and cannot be adequately treated as an appendage to another.
TimaeusPlato
She was in high feather, not adequately to be expressed by the plumes, and at once she told him why.
The PrisonerAlice Brown
I only know of one book in which the subject is adequately handled.
The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and UseHenry Saint-George
I wish that I could adequately express my thoughts about her, but I can't.
'Smiles'Eliot H. Robinson
adequate
- able to fulfil a need or requirement without being abundant, outstanding, etc