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Definition of Adequate

1. Adjective. Having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task. "He was equal to the task"

2. Adjective. Sufficient for the purpose. "Food enough"

3. Adjective. About average; acceptable. "More than adequate as a secretary"

Definition of Adequate

1. a. Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition.

2. v. t. To equalize; to make adequate.

Definition of Adequate

1. Adjective. Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition lawfully and physically sufficient. ¹

2. Verb. (obsolete) To equalize; to make adequate. ¹

3. Verb. (obsolete) To equal. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Adequate

1. sufficient for a specific requirement [adj]

Medical Definition of Adequate

1. Satisfactory in quantity or quality, sufficient. (18 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adequate

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Literary usage of Adequate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"adequate Ideas are such as perfectly represent their Archetypes. ... OF our real ideas, some are adequate, and some are inadequate. Those I call adequate, ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"The main ground relied on by the appellant is, that the relief sought should be refused because the appellee had a plain, adequate and complete remedy at ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In one hypothesis only is Redemption, as described above, deemed absolutely necessary and that is if God should demand an adequate compensation for the sin ..."

4. Principles of the English Law of Contract and of Agency in Its Relation to by William Reynell Anson (1884)
"Courts of law will not inquire whether or no the consider- Consider- ation be adequate to the promise, but they will insist that it be something of some ..."

5. The Constitution of the United States of America: With an Alphabetical by William Hickey, United States (1854)
"... to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of ..."

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