Synonym: ample, enough, plenty, satisfactory, sufficient. Antonym: deficient, inadequate, insufficient. Similar words: equation, graduate, evaluate, insinuate, accentuate, undergraduate, square, squad. Meaning: ['ædɪkwət] adj. 1. (sometimes followed by `to') meeting the requirements especially of a task 2. enough to meet a purpose 3. about average; acceptable.
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151. Encouragement and real results are the essential ingredients required to nurture adequate supplies of willpower and to keep it growing.
152. The need for the adequate provision of permanent residential homes increases substantially as the mentally handicapped child grows up.
153. The address book is an odd addition, given that the database is perfectly adequate for fulfilling this need.
154. The rest of the supporting cast ranges from adequate to uncomfortable.
155. Ensure that an adequate system for taking backup files is established and maintained.
156. Welfare and social services Recent research has demonstrated that people with severe mental handicaps can undertake productive work,(sentencedict.com/adequate.html) with adequate support.
157. The mobility allowance amounted initially to £10 a week and was recognised as anything but adequate.
158. Preparation and follow-up To get full value from a visit, adequate preparation and follow-up are vital.
159. Others represented yet more heroes and champions, of which the disc had a more than adequate supply.
160. Apart from recruitment the greatest problem most armies faced was that of giving adequate training to their officers.
161. However, this is more surely an argument for adequate preparation than for a refusal to appear.
162. You won't find any really luxurious accommodations, but there are adequate hotels and guest houses.
163. The Rules do contain adequate provisions for appeal by the person upon whom a notice is served.
164. Most universities have some review committee that requires a statement from the researcher that adequate protection will be guaranteed for all respondents.
165. As he adds detail he records it simply to his own satisfaction and in a form adequate to his own purposes.
166. While the pantograph is probably the simplest type of digitiser there is it is often completely adequate for home computer use.
167. It is, rather, the context in which more adequate explanation can occur, or at least be attempted.
168. This put him on two public payrolls, the county and the state, and assured him of an adequate income.
169. Men involved in the upper reaches of political life might not necessarily find in it an adequate protection.
170. The court is able to give adequate protection to solicitors' clients without straining the language of section 69.
171. They will have failed to maintain an adequate level of expectation about what life can be as non-parents.
172. The first point is that you can't make a meaningful choice of subjects without adequate information.
173. This regime should have been more than adequate to demonstrate any significant short-term effects of reduced sleep.
174. It is very hard to provide a simple but adequate explanation.
175. One 63-year-old freed prisoner revealed that captives were kept in metal cages without sanitation or adequate food.
176. Such a position is not just a correction of Kant but a fundamental rejection in favor of another and more adequate criterion.
177. Other requirements: Light: Appreciates good light from above and all round, though light from above is perfectly adequate.
178. Anything like an adequate account of the method of empirical inquiry is out of the question here.
179. The budgetary commission noted that the budget was not adequate to complete the necessary economic restructuring.
180. In acute diseases it is generally adequate to look only at the symptoms of the acute disease itself.