Definition of Adequate

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Definition of Adequate
	Adequate Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition. To equalize; to make adequate. To equal. Related Definitions: Adequate, An, As, Correspondent, Definition, Equal, Equalize, Fully, Great, Make, Or, Proportionate, Requirement, Some, Sufficient, To, Work

Adequate Quotations

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Warren Buffett

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
George Washington

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
Norman Borlaug

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
Norman Borlaug

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
Simone de Beauvoir

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.
Chester W. Nimitz

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
Will Durant

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.
Gerald R. Ford

Adequate Translations

adequate in Dutch is adequaat, bijbehorend
adequate in German is ausreichend, entsprechend
adequate in Italian is equo, appropriato
adequate in Portuguese is adequado
adequate in Spanish is adecuado, adecuada

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