adequately

American  

[ad-i-kwit-lee] / ˈæd ɪ kwɪt li /

adverb

1. in a way that is sufficient, suitable, effective, or appropriate.

   The professor’s vague response failed to adequately answer our questions.

   The clinic needs to be appropriately staffed with permanently employed and adequately trained personnel.

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Other Word Forms

• preadequately adverb
• quasi-adequately adverb
• superadequately adverb

Etymology

Origin of adequately

adequate ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

"Both considered themselves... to be sufficiently experienced, adequately prepared, and well equipped," he said.

From BBC

It found that expenditure on the card had been "fully reconciled", and that the "limited number of personal expenses had been adequately explained and reimbursed".

From BBC

Busola Sodeinde, another lay member of Synod from London said Anglicans in the "Global South" were "wounded" and felt that they had not been adequately consulted.

From BBC

The FDA said Moderna failed to adequately compare the vaccine to its peers, though it didn’t cite safety or efficacy issues in a letter to the company.

From The Wall Street Journal

They had already established that the Los Angeles Fire Department had failed to pre-deploy adequately for the fire, and that it had failed to extinguish an earlier fire that later triggered the epic disaster.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• appropriately
• competently
• decently
• satisfactorily
• sufficiently