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inadequate English

Meaning inadequate meaning

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Definitions in simple English

inadequate

If something is inadequate, there is not enough of it. Something that is inadequate is lacking. We have an inadequate amount of food to last us three days.

inadequate

(= unequal) lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task inadequate training the staff was inadequate she was unequal to the task (= poor, short) not sufficient to meet a need an inadequate income a poor salary money is short on short rations food is in short supply short on experience

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Simple sentences

What percentage of illnesses are associated with inadequate diets?
The road is inadequate for the amount of traffic which it carries.
The search function is inadequate.
Nutrition is inadequate in some poor areas.
It's inadequate.
Inadequate questions give rise to inadequate answers.
The discovery of inadequate infection control protocols in several dental clinics has given rise to fears that patients may have been infected with HIV or hepatitis.
The allotment is inadequate.
Unfortunately, many Russian citizens have inadequate conception of what is happening in Kyiv.

Movie subtitles

To be one-faced is inadequate.
Oh, yes, they are sort of inadequate.
I'm not a poet, but I've got an umbrella. and your hat, if I may say so. is singularly inadequate under the circumstances.
It's made me feel very good. and very secure. and very inadequate.
I know that dometimed- dometimed I'm inadequate for you.
Eating and drinking are inadequate substitutes for achievement.
General Mireau feels that the attack on the Ant Hill yesterday morning. failed because of an inadequate effort on the part of the First Battalion.
And so now Dr Luther had three inadequate personalities to complicate and confuse his search for one stable and complete woman, all of whom continued to live, so to speak, their own separate lives.
And due to our inadequate fire department, the building was a total loss.
It's our opinion the sanitary arrangements on this ship are hopelessly inadequate.
I did that portrait which you saw on her room before but it is all inadequate to what I called the loveliness of her.
And then, I shall probably receive the displeasure of American's Government, and you and I will be retired upon a most inadequate pension.
You should have warned me. that feathers are a very inadequate protection. for a poor raven on a cold December night.
The words are inadequate.
No amount of inadequate guidance can save them from their inevitable annihilation.
Yes. Thank you. But you can form only a very inadequate picture of him.
If msiturou with inadequate people.
General Mireau feels that the attack on the Ant Hill failed because of an inadequate effort on the part of the 1st Battalion.
He'd have to pray like Millet's peasants or ignore the church's call. He would be ridiculous or inadequate.
And, uh, because I'm scared I get inadequate.
And, uh, because I'm inadequate, she thinks I'm with other women.
She doesn't think that I'm inadequate, she just thinks I'm tired.
Inadequate.
All of a sudden I feel inadequate, as if I should have fenders or something.
I think our security arrangements are inadequate and suggest we ask International Rescue to be present at the next launching.
You're afraid of being inadequate.
Ho, ho. I know that dometimed- dometimed I'm inadequate for you.
Its probably through no fault of your own. You've had mediocre directors, inadequate scripts, you haven't learned anything.
We make up for the inadequate welfare policy.
General Mireau feels that the attack on the Ant Hill yesterday morning failed because of an inadequate effort on the part of the First Battalion.
Well, I got a look at the dispensary when I fixed Mr Geary's arm. And I mentioned it seemed a little inadequate for 32 children there.
It's inadequate for that number of children. That's all.
I don't understand why you're living on this ship. especially in this inadequate area, while there are so many nice villas in London.
Our 17th electricity plan is inadequate.
You're afraid of being inadequate. Inadequate?
I'm inadequate.

News and current affairs

The current aid structures are inadequate.
Despite the dedicated efforts of many professionals, the response to the hunger crisis remains utterly inadequate.
But that is facile: inadequate attribution affects inter-state deterrence as well, yet it still operates.
Inevitably, in countries where children have inadequate nutrition, insufficient access to health care and education, and higher exposure to environmental hazards, the children of the poor will have far different life prospects from those of the rich.
America's jobs deficit is primarily the result of inadequate aggregate demand.
Second, inadequate macroeconomic policy coordination has resulted in divergences in the international competitiveness of euro-zone members, threatening the very existence of the euro.
One could argue that the bilateral sanctions imposed by the 14 on Austria were inadequate and even ineffective.
Governments have been quick to believe that the protests are fundamentally about high prices and unemployment, but the issue that unites Arab discontent is inadequate governance.
India's infrastructure problems are legendary, with airports and railroads that are comically inadequate.
Training to respond to severe accidents was inadequate.
Current scientific knowledge is simply inadequate to face the challenge.
The initiators of the 2002 Arab peace initiative likewise understood that a strictly bilateral approach might be inadequate, and instead called to regionalize the solution to the conflict.
About one in four children under the age of five are underweight, mainly due to lack of quality food, inadequate water, sanitation, and health services, and poor care and feeding practices.
This will reduce the danger of excessive capital flows to emerging markets, but the next crisis is likely to arise from inadequate capital flows.
The only thing we got wrong was how bad banks' lending practices were, how non-transparent banks really were, and how inadequate their risk management systems were.
But in more complex cases, in which living beings collaborate to build societies or create knowledge, our scientific models are inadequate.
Those who recommend a unilateral American foreign policy based on such traditional descriptions of American power are relying on a woefully inadequate analysis.
Meanwhile, amid plodding deliberations of incremental steps that are clearly inadequate, Syrians are being displaced, wounded, tortured, and killed in droves.
While the times call for a systematic approach, the solutions offered have been disjointed or inadequate.
In the eyes of most Asian policymakers, the proposed contribution by the West, especially America, towards solving the problem is woefully inadequate.
But the new measures ultimately amount to more of the same: a fragmented policy approach that will prove inadequate to solve Afghanistan's fundamental economic problems.
Institutional reform must therefore move beyond the BCB's inadequate price-stability target, which is set according to a narrow inflation index that fails to reflect the experiences of ordinary Brazilian consumers.

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