Synonym: deficient, insufficient, lacking, short of, unsatisfactory, wanting. Antonym: adequate. Similar words: adequate, equation, loquat, in advance, equal, in addition, in advance of, inadvertent. Meaning: ['ɪn'ædɪkwət] adj. 1. (sometimes followed by `to') not meeting the requirements especially of a task 2. not sufficient to meet a need.
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61. Regrettably we have to house families in these inadequate flats.
62. The commission pinpoints inadequate housing as a basic problem threatening village life.
63. The training that nurses get is woefully inadequate.
64. All the obvious expressions of sympathy were wholly inadequate.
65. His answers were pathetically inadequate.
66. The preparations were woefully inadequate.
67. He could make her feel so inadequate.
68. Women detainees often get inadequate medical care.
69. Are people made to feel inadequate?
70. I decide whether to feel inadequate or not.
71. The content of curricula is often inadequate.
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72. In their opinion, such deficiencies clearly led to inadequate administrative back-stopping and faulty interpersonal relations.
73. Both houses could be used as dormitories, if No. 43 proved inadequate.
74. She'd always had to have an imaginary life simultaneously, as the real one was inadequate.
75. Systematic use of a checklist often reveals faults in work design such as inadequate access, visibility and labelling.
76. The disease spread quickly because of poor living conditions and inadequate health care.
77. Statistical methods of analysing the large amounts of data which can arise from such studies are at present inadequate.
78. I felt dreadfully inadequate in the face of this material.
79. Does the Land Rover petrol engine have a reputation for inadequate cooling when operated in tropical climates?
80. Our car coddling extends way beyond an inadequate transit system.
81. Construction faults, equipment failure and inadequate training of staff were given as the major causes of incidents.
82. Current board officials acknowledge that past actions may have been inadequate but said they have learned from their predecessors' mistakes.
83. Other plants such as maize may be susceptible to chilling stress because they have an inadequate antioxidant defences.
84. Without the brown lump, I feel inadequate as a hostess, abbreviated in my domestic duties, incomplete.
85. Most chess players would have thought this was inadequate to play Master-level chess even for a machine with superior positional understanding.
86. But the overriding image carried every night on the evening news has been one of a woefully inadequate effort.
87. A second level of priority was assigned to provisions for those severely handicapped children whose educations were judged to be inadequate.
88. However, even before the war erupted again in the early 1980s, education provision in the south was inadequate.
89. Unilateralism is refreshing, if it means plain speaking about inadequate treaties or misguided policies.
90. Somewhere they knew they had crippled her life, and their own responses were inadequate.
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