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adequate

/ad-i-kwit/US // ˈæd ɪ kwɪt //UK // (ˈædɪkwɪt) //

充分的,足够的,适当的,充足的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : as much or as good as necessary for some requirement or purpose; fully sufficient, suitable, or fit: This car is adequate to our needs.They’ll provide adequate food for fifty people.
    • : barely sufficient or suitable: Being adequate is not good enough.
    • : Law. reasonably sufficient for starting legal action: adequate grounds.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.enough, able
Antonyms

Examples

  • Without adequate knowledge of analytics, your marketing won’t work because you won’t know what worked and what didn’t work.

  • Three trim levels are all powered by a new four-cylinder, 149-hp engine that is adequate—but not exactly thrilling.

  • The three years that had elapsed since Stewart first came forward made it impossible to mount an adequate defense, he argued.

  • He also said inspectors lack adequate personal protective equipment for increased facility visits.

  • Those studies are either planned or ongoing, though recruiting adequate numbers of people has been challenging.

  • “The government failed to show that it had adequate basis for the certification,” he wrote in August.

  • “I spent about a year criticizing Hillary Clinton for not providing adequate security for Benghazi,” he recalled.

  • But two years after that, UFW walked away from its negotiations with Gerawan, unable to muster adequate worker support.

  • “As long as they have an adequate body weight, most women will ovulate just fine, even on marathon weekend,” he says.

  • The airline industry has failed to give an adequate answer to that.

  • Judged from this point of view only, the elasticity provided by the new law is doubtless adequate.

  • First, how about the expansibility needed to supply adequate funds for crop-moving?

  • Adequate conception of the extent, the variety, the excellence of the works of Art here heaped together is impossible.

  • In one sense, then, the new issue has adequate expansibility for ordinary needs.

  • Outsiders lack adequate motives for sending the notes home; issuers lack adequate motives for calling them home.