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inadequately

/in-ad-i-kwit/US // ɪnˈæd ɪ kwɪt //UK // (ɪnˈædɪkwɪt) //

不够,不足,不充分,不适当

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not adequate or sufficient; inept or unsuitable.
    • : Psychiatry. ineffectual in response to emotional, social, intellectual, and physical demands in the absence of any obvious mental or physical deficiency.

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Examples

  • A recent article in Entrepreneur magazine listed “inadequate testing” as the top reason why startups fail.

  • He also expects unsourced rumors of inadequate safety procedures at local polling places.

  • For the federal government to put it on the states to protect workers is wholly and fundamentally inadequate.

  • She said the Mnuchin proposal remains inadequate, and said she could not accept something that the administration can’t even sell to the Senate.

  • Cetron told colleagues in an email that the industry’s plan was inadequate, given the “sardine can density” of these ships, records show.

  • I don't think that answer is obvious, even if we concede that the Bangladeshi government is inadequately responsive.

  • The aggregate of individual decisions, each of which is rational, yields an inadequately trained workforce.

  • Obama has stabilized the economy and revived it, inadequately.

  • In fact they only serve to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here.

  • I replied honestly but inadequately, feeling momentarily disoriented myself.

  • The fleet responded somewhat spasmodically, if not inadequately, to these calls.

  • But life is short for such agreeable exercises, so this chapter must inadequately proceed.

  • I would open another school to train women to every kind of trivial service, now clumsily or inadequately performed by men.

  • Here too we find that the emotions and feelings associated with the reproductive instinct may be inadequately developed.

  • With respect to danger of injury, in a large proportion of places there is unguarded or inadequately guarded machinery.