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ADEQUATE TO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does adequate to mean?
• ADEQUATE TO (adjective)
The adjective ADEQUATE TO has 1 sense:
1. having the requisite qualities for
Familiarity information: ADEQUATE TO used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having the requisite qualities for
Synonyms:
adequate to; capable; equal to; up to
Context example:
the work isn't up to the standard I require
Similar:
adequate; equal (having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task)
Context examples
The materials at present within my command hardly appeared adequate to so arduous an undertaking, but I doubted not that I should ultimately succeed.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
His temptation is not adequate to the risk!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Her legal allowance was not adequate to her fortune, nor sufficient for her comfortable maintenance, and I learnt from my brother that the power of receiving it had been made over some months before to another person.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I had not a very large wardrobe, though it was adequate to my wants; and the last day sufficed to pack my trunk,—the same I had brought with me eight years ago from Gateshead.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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