adequate
See also: adéquate
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- adæquate (obsolete)
Etymology edit
Latin adaequātus, past participle of adaequō (“to make equal to”); ad + aequō (“to make equal”), from aequus (“equal”).
Pronunciation edit
- Adjective
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈæd.ə.kwɪt/, (proscribed) /ˈæ.də.kɪt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈæd.ɪ.kwət/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Verb
Adjective edit
adequate (comparative more adequate, superlative most adequate)
- Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.
- Synonyms: acceptable, correspondent, proportionate, satisfactory, sufficient
- Antonym: inadequate
- powers adequate to a great work
- an adequate definition
- 1673, Hannah Woolley, “Of Habit, and the neatness and property thereof”, in The Gentlewomans Companion[1], London: Dorman Newman, page 61:
- Proportion therefore your Clothes to your bodies, and let them be proper for your persons. […] Agreeableness […] ought to be exact, and adequate both to age, person and condition, avoiding extremities on both sides, being neither too much out, nor in the fashions.
- 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter 31, in Sense and Sensibility […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
- Her legal allowance was not adequate to her fortune, nor sufficient for her comfortable maintenance […]
- 1853, Thomas De Quincey, Autobiographic Sketches in Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers, Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, “Dublin,” p. 254,[2]
- […] in those days, Ireland had no adequate champion; the Hoods and the Grattans were not up to the mark.
- 1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Empty House”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes[3]:
- All day as I drove upon my round I turned over the case in my mind, and found no explanation which appeared to me to be adequate.
- 2009, J. M. Coetzee, Summertime[4], New York: Viking, page 212:
- John was a perfectly adequate academic. A perfectly adequate academic but not a notable teacher.
Synonyms edit
- (passable): See Thesaurus:satisfactory
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
equal to some requirement
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Determiner edit
adequate
- A sufficient amount of; enough.
- We have adequate money for the journey.
Verb edit
adequate (third-person singular simple present adequates, present participle adequating, simple past and past participle adequated)
- (obsolete) To equalize; to make adequate.
- 1622, Martin Fotherby, Atheomastix; clearing foure truthes, against atheists and infidels[5], London, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 208:
- Let me giue yet one instance more, of a truly intellectuall obiect, exactly adequated and proportioned vnto the intellectuall appetite.
- (obsolete) To equal.
- 1635, Robert Shelford, “Theologia Amantis Deum, or A Treatise of the Divine Attributes”, in Five Pious and Learned Discourses[6], Cambridge, page 227:
- […] though it be an impossibilitie for any creature to adequate God in his eternitie, yet he hath ordained all his sonnes in Christ to partake of it by living with him eternally.
Translations edit
to make adequate
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Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
adequate
- inflection of adequare:
Etymology 2 edit
Participle edit
adequate f pl