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adequate English

Meaning adequate meaning

What does adequate mean?
Definitions in simple English

adequate

If something is adequate, it is good enough. It is very hard to provide a simple but adequate explanation. She left her other job so that she could devote adequate time to the school. A small knife is adequate for this purpose. By 1922, the single school-room was no longer adequate to meet the needs of the town.

adequate

(= equal) 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 (= decent, enough) sufficient for the purpose an adequate income the food was adequate a decent wage enough food food enough about average; acceptable more than adequate as a secretary

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Simple sentences

We don't need to kill, torture, abuse and exploit animals to have all necessary nutrients for adequate lives.
That threw adequate light on his feelings toward her.
This meal is adequate for two.
This paper should be adequate for your purpose.
This meal is adequate for three.
He is adequate to the job.
She isn't adequate to the task.
The hurricane survivors were allotted adequate food provisions for their basic nourishment.
Flying in darkness without adequate training is a major cause of light aircraft accidents.
With adequate lighting, one can easily discern Nosferatu, with his pointed incisors and extremely long-limbed fingers, known as arachnodaktyly, from common vampires.
I believe our imagination isn't quite adequate to picture it.
The national health service was far from adequate.
The project to build a new sports center has fallen through for lack of adequate funds.
He is adequate for the post.
It was adequate.
When Rafael was studying medicine, he painfully saw how people afflicted by heart diseases died due to lack of adequate medical equipment.
It seems adequate.

Movie subtitles

I thought Martini's singing was adequate, but to call him a great singer. ridiculous.
The governors would grant you an adequate pension.
Lance, that setting wasn't adequate for a man of his size.
Adequate.
They supplied you with adequate funds?
But some claim that they were adequate that you don't need a 4-lane highway for a horse and buggy.
Nothing lavish, you understand, but adequate.
The punishment seems hardly adequate.
Crude but adequate.
I believe 6,000 would be adequate.
And this is what they call adequate transport!
A remarkable achievement, Captain. and one that deserves adequate recognition.
The Geneva Convention stipulates. that the generals will adequate transportation.
We're still left with a force more than adequate to hold it.
I realized that even with my power, it wasn't nearly adequate to save the entire human race.
Looks adequate but lonesome.
How important it is. to this constituency that at this crucial by-election. our candidate should be returned by an adequate majority.
Take whatever force you think adequate and move up to Rannu.
Oh, Sir Ronald, even though I'm convinced that the threat means nothing and that a routine police guard would be quite adequate, you can depend on me.
If you hadn't been so stupid and mysterious, allowed Scotland Yard to give you adequate protection, the man would never have escaped.
Adequate as can be.
I spent my life making fairly adequate copies of the masters.
Just adequate.
Do you think it's adequate?
His paperwork is adequate.
I just want to say that we want adequate compensation for our work.
I can find no adequate words to thank you.
Will your salary be adequate?
For example, this here, it all looks quite adequate.
The surface there should be adequate.
Is confinement to quarters enough? - Adequate, doctor.
Control of musculature and vocal chords awkward, but adequate.
We find the one quite adequate.

News and current affairs

It was Japan, the high-tech country par excellence (not the latter-day Soviet Union) that proved unable to take adequate precautions to avert disaster in four reactor blocks.
Moreover, countries like Ethiopia are making valiant, indeed remarkable, efforts to overcome their problems, despite the lack of adequate, and long-promised, help from the world's richest countries.
Governments without adequate capacity to exercise leadership over their private sectors are likely to mess things up rather than improve allocation of resources.
Little has been done to deconstruct structural complexity, let alone win sufficient public support for a medium-term vision, a credible implementation strategy, and a set of measures that is adequate to the task at hand.
Old-fashioned military dominance is no longer adequate to promote American interests.
The Bush Administration makes no claim to have adequate evidence of this.
It is also true, however, that such training does not provide an adequate foundation for addressing the more abstract, but profoundly important, questions that ultimately must guide global policy and decision-making.
People like Bill Gates and Kofi Annan will make the case that immunization programs deserve adequate funding and political support.
Of course, these indicators do have a legitimate role to play in explaining housing markets, but they are simply not adequate to account for the recent booms.
On the other hand, foreign banks were always falling short in assuring an adequate supply of credit to small and medium sized Argentine firms.
After the burst of growth that arrived with hyperinflation's end, growth slowed, partly because firms in the country couldn't get adequate finance.
But what happened in Libya has made them fear that Qaddafi's fate could be theirs, too, without an adequate deterrent.
ROME - An effective tax policy that ensures adequate domestic revenue is a crucial determinant of a country's ability to pursue development policies.
For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty, but have failed to match their words with adequate action.
Second, adequate resources should be made available to poor and vulnerable regions and countries to enable them to adapt to climate change.
But adequate investment in mitigating the damage could partly resolve the problem.
But adequate funding structures for Italy and Spain must be in place before any resolution.
We need no longer address the first - that he was behind the attacks of September 2001 on the US. The Bush Administration makes no claim to have adequate evidence of this.
This, however, requires an adequate understanding of those interests and a willingness to cooperate on the basis of mutual trust, which should be a given within the European family.
Without adequate governance, oil revenues will be wasted on grandiose projects, corruption, or rearmament.
The narrowing of national autonomy in the formulation of development strategy is a cost for which developing countries are unlikely to receive an adequate reward.
None of these explanations is an adequate excuse for the ECB's opposition to deep involuntary restructuring of Greece's debt.

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