enough to meet a purpose; " an adequate income"; " the food was adequate"; " a decent wage"; " enough food"; " food enough"

( sometimes followed by ` to') meeting the requirements especially of a task; " she had adequate training"; " her training was adequate"; " she was adequate to the job"

about average; acceptable; " more than adequate as a secretary"

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

To equalize; to make adequate.

Equal to requirement; sufficient; enough.

Adequately.

Adequateness.

Equal to: proportionate: sufficient.

Sufficient; equal.

Fully sufficient.

Equal to; proportionate; fully sufficient.

To equal

Fully sufficient for; equal to.

He had adequate time to keep the most important appointment of his recent life, although none to spare. – Lonesome Town by Ethel and James Dorrance

One place after another was suggested, only for the suggestion to be dismissed for some good and adequate reason. – Between the Lines by Boyd Cable

His break point seemed to have no adequate antecedents. – Human Error by Raymond F. Jones

I made answer, that the sum was not adequate to the expenses. – The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VIII. (of 12) by Edmund Burke

There was no adequate reply. – Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 by Various

The provision of adequate quarters for the Post Office should be put on a sound basis. – Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present by Various

Only one English writer has ever done him justice, or said anything adequate about him. – Figures of Several Centuries by Arthur Symons

There will necessarily be infant schools of an inferior quality for a long time, because it will take time to make common an adequate education in the art of kindergartning; but let such be called play- schools. – Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School by Elizabeth P. Peabody

Yields of crops are limited more by lack of a constant and adequate supply of moisture throughout the growing season than by any other one factor. – Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement by Alva Agee

Slowly Thord raised his great, dark, passionate eyes, clouded black with thoughts which could find no adequate expression. – Temporal Power by Marie Corelli

But let us consider this matter of adequate compensation. – The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Mr. Sherman then offered an amendment in the nature of a substitute, the preamble of which declared that " No legal State governments or adequate protection for life or property now exist in the rebel States." – History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by Wiliam H. Barnes

" A man comes to know the measure of such sacrifice after an experience like mine- I have no words-" " Don't, Champney- don't-" " No, I won't, because I can't- because nothing is adequate. – Flamsted quarries by Mary E. Waller

And I could find no adequate reply. – The Red Planet by William J. Locke

Nor was his electro- telescope adequate to pick small objects at any great distance. – Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 by Various

And Constance did not care where Sophia came from, nor what Sophia had been accustomed to, nor into what limited company Sophia had been transformed- that room was adequate! – The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

It cannot honestly be said that our present criticism is adequate to either task. – Aspects of Literature by J. Middleton Murry

There was no adequate system of management. – McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 by Cyrus Macmillan

They managed as well with almost nothing at all, as with a really adequate amount- which is to say that they don't know in the least what the word manage means! – The Story Of Julia Page Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. by Kathleen Norris

No adequate account of James Prinsep's remarkable career has been published. – Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by William Sleeman