Word Meanings - ADEQUATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition. Ireland had no adequate champion. De Quincey. Syn. -- Proportionate; commensurate; sufficient; suitable;

Additional info about word: ADEQUATE

Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition. Ireland had no adequate champion. De Quincey. Syn. -- Proportionate; commensurate; sufficient; suitable; competent; capable.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ADEQUATE)

• Commensurate
• Equal
• adequate
• sufficient
• coextensive
• conterminous
• Complete \adj Full
• perfect
• finished
• entire
• consummate
• total
• exhaustive
• thorough
• accomplished
• Condign
• Deserved
• merited
• meet
• just
• Fit
• Decent
• befitting
• apt
• fitting
• adapted
• seemly
• appropriate
• becoming
• decorous
• qualified
• congruous
• peculiar
• particular
• suitable
• prepared
• calculated
• contrived
• expedient
• proper
• ripe
• Suitable
• Proper
• eligible
• agreeable
• decent
• convenient
• accordant
• competent
• correspondent
• harmonious
• uniform
• homogeneous

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ADEQUATE)

• Neglect
• drop
• interrupt
• nullify
• undo
• baffle
• frustrate
• mar
• defeat
• spoil

Related words: (words related to ADEQUATE)

• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• CONSUMMATELY
  In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
• CONDIGN
  1. Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit. Condign and worthy praise. Udall. Herself of all that rule she deemend most condign. Spenser. 2. Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime. "Condign censure." Milman. Unless it were a bloody murderer
• DESERVEDNESS
  Meritoriousness.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• QUALIFICATION
  1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified. 2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success;
• UNIFORMISM
  The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• FINISHER
  1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings,
• PERFECT
  Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence , a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord , a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly
• TOTALIS
  The total. I look on nothing but totalis. B. Jonson.
• THOROUGHWORT
  See BONESET
• CALCULATED
  1. Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball. 2. Adapted by calculation,
• MERIT
  deserve, merit; prob. originally, to get a share; akin to Gr. Market, 1. The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert. Here may men see how sin hath his merit. Chaucer. Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought For things that
• EQUALIZER
  One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
• ACCOMPLISHED
  1. Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact. 2. Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain. They . . . show themselves accomplished
• DESERVE
  1. To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise. God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Job xi. 6. John
• HOMOGENEOUSNESS
  Sameness 9kind or nature; uniformity of structure or material.
• QUALIFIED
  1. Fitted by accomplishments or endowments. 2. Modified; limited; as, a qualified statement. Qualified fee , a base fee, or an estate which has a qualification annexed to it, the fee ceasing with the qualification, as a grant to A and his heirs,
• UNIFORMAL
  Uniform. Herrick.
• INDECOROUSNESS
  The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• TEMERITY
  Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war. Syn. -- Rashness; precipitancy; heedlessness; venturesomeness. -- Temerity, Rashness. These words are closely allied in sense, but have a
• UNEQUALABLE
  Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.
• EMERITUS
  Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church. (more info) emerere, emereri, to obtain by service, serve out one's
• MESOCUNEIFORM; MESOCUNIFORM
  One of the bones of the tarsus. See 2d Cuneiform.