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Webster 1913 Edition
Adequate
Ad′e-quate
,Adj.
[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.Ireland had no
adequate
champion. De Quincey.
Syn. – Proportionate; commensurate; sufficient; suitable; competent; capable.
1.
To equalize; to make adequate.
[R.]
Fotherby.
2.
To equal.
[Obs.]
It [is] an impossibility for any creature to
adequate
God in his eternity. Shelford.
Webster 1828 Edition
Adequate
AD'EQUATE
,Adj.
Adequate ideas, are such as exactly represent their object.
AD'EQUATE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
adequate
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See also: adéquate
English
Alternative forms
- adæquate (archaic)
Adjective
adequate (comparative more adequate, superlative most adequate)
- Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition lawfully and physically sufficient.
- De Quincey
- Ireland had no adequate champion.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Empty House
- All day, as I drove upon my round, I turned over the case in my mind and found no explanation which appeared to me to be adequate.
- De Quincey
Antonyms
Translations
equal to some requirement
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Verb
adequate (third-person singular simple present adequates, present participle adequating, simple past and past participle adequated)
- (obsolete) To equalize; to make adequate.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fotherby to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To equal.
- It [is] an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity. — Shelford.