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adequate adjective [ ˈadɪkwət ]

• satisfactory or acceptable in quality or quantity.
• "this office is perfectly adequate for my needs"
Similar: sufficient, enough, ample, requisite, apposite, appropriate, suitable, acceptable, passable, reasonable, satisfactory, tolerable, fair, fairly good, pretty good, goodish, middle-of-the-road, mediocre, unexceptional, unexceptionable, undistinguished, unremarkable, ordinary, commonplace, indifferent, average, not bad, all right, good enough, so-so, minimal, medium, moderate, run-of-the-mill, forgettable, OK, okay, fair-to-middling, nothing to write home about, nothing to shout about, no great shakes, (plain) vanilla, bog-standard, half-pie, cromulent, equal to, up to, capable, of, suited to, suitable for, able to do, qualified for, fit for, good enough for, sufficient for, up to scratch,
Opposite: insufficient, inadequate, unequal to,
Origin: early 17th century: from Latin adaequatus ‘made equal to’, past participle of the verb adaequare, from ad- ‘to’ + aequus ‘equal’.


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