adequate
adjective
as much or as good as necessary for some requirement or purpose; fully sufficient, suitable, or fit (often followed by to orfor ).
adequateness
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a word derived from
adequate.
Example Sentences
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This wide range of variability between definite limits is coupled with a high degree of sensibility and adequateness to the most diverging experiments.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
For the object must be given in experience, and the question relates to the adequateness of the object to an idea.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
It would require a very bulky volume to realise with any adequateness the ideal aim.
From Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker
This is not a proper occasion for saying anything about the adequateness of the catholic, or any other special manner of fostering and solacing the religious impulses of men.
From On Compromise by John Morley
In maturity of development, in intellectual force, in beauty of expression, and in general adequateness, De los nombres de Cristo exhibits Luis de Leon's prose at its culmination.
From Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
