adequately
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3.0
- adverb
- /ˈædɪkwətli/
:
adecuadamente
- The teacher explained the topic adequately so that all students understood.
- adequately address
- adequately prepare
- adequately capture
And because of that, why can't we respond adequately to this, this outbreak?
- And because of that, why can't we respond adequately to this, this outbreak?
- No reform is achievable unless you adequately manage those relationships.
- Preoccupied people can't even adequately study arts or disciplines.
- One day I hope that my local Kmart adequately stocks all of her sizes.
- I don't think their their point scoring system adequately rewards what people value.
- But are you adequately grasping time by doing so?
- So we should keep that in mind to remain adequately humble about what we want to do.
- Not even, but still adequately cool our CPU.
- Most of us don't have the resources to adequately protect ourselves from a legal onslaught.
- And that guy, the article said, is suing his broker for not adequately disclosing the risks.
- Everyone I trust can hear me adequately.
- And some of us sent him letters afterwards saying that we were not adequately briefed.
- Another great body of lore that preserves this very adequately is the very folklore of the Celts.
- These biographical facts come nowhere close to adequately describing the person who is with us tonight.
Examples
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Only recently has the proportion of adequately trained officers exceeded half.
Academic text (2011) -
As a whole, do the questions adequately represent an overall knowledge of dance?
Academic text (1999) -
And then does it pay adequately for me to take care of my needs?
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In the exercise you had yesterday, you had not enough information for doing this step adequately, OK?
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No individual will have ever been so adequately prepared for an event.
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But the characters cannot be described adequately without the events that happen to them being involved.
Fiction book (2002) -
Hill believed that future high school teachers could not be adequately prepared in four years.
Academic text (1990) -
Finally, respondents were asked whether the program adequately prepared students to teach school or community fitness programs.
Academic text (1990) -
As long as such a breach remains, democratic government cannot adequately fulfill its representative functions.
Academic text (1990) -
Most of us don't have the resources to adequately protect ourselves from a legal onslaught.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
In a good or skillful way
706
1.0
In a good enough way
129
2.2
To a fair degree but not very much
119
3.2
At a level that is enough for what is needed
20
2.7
In a proper and respectful way
11
3.9
In a way that is good enough to meet needs or expectations
3
4.9
Good enough but not very good
1
4.6
Good enough to do the job but not very good
1
1.1
In a way that is good enough but not very good
1
1.0
In a way that is good enough
Antonyms
How Adequate
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word adequately comes from Latin parts ad- 'to' and aequus 'equal', and it is related to the English word equal. So to do something adequately is to make it 'equal' to what is needed, that is, to do it 'enough' or to a satisfactory degree.