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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task;
- Example: "she had adequate training"
- Example: "her training was adequate"
- Example: "she was adequate to the job"
- Example: "he was equal to the task"
[syn: adequate, equal]

2. sufficient for the purpose;
- Example: "an adequate income"
- Example: "the food was adequate"
- Example: "a decent wage"
- Example: "enough food"
- Example: "food enough"
[syn: adequate, decent, enough]

3. about average; acceptable;
- Example: "more than adequate as a secretary"
[syn: adequate, passable, fair to middling, tolerable]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Adequate \Ad"e*quate\, a. [L. adaequatus, p. p. of adaequare to
   make equal to; ad + aequare to make equal, aequus equal. See
   Equal.]
   Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent;
   fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an
   adequate definition.
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         Ireland had no adequate champion.        --De Quincey.
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   Syn: Proportionate; commensurate; sufficient; suitable;
        competent; capable.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Adequate \Ad"e*quate\, v. t. [See Adequate, a.]
   1. To equalize; to make adequate. [R.] --Fotherby.
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   2. To equal. [Obs.]
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            It [is] an impossibility for any creature to
            adequate God in his eternity.         --Shelford.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

adequate
    adj 1: having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a
           task; "she had adequate training"; "her training was
           adequate"; "she was adequate to the job"; "he was equal
           to the task" [syn: adequate, equal] [ant:
           inadequate, unequal]
    2: sufficient for the purpose; "an adequate income"; "the food
       was adequate"; "a decent wage"; "enough food"; "food enough"
       [syn: adequate, decent, enough]
    3: about average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a
       secretary" [syn: adequate, passable, fair to middling,
       tolerable]