adequate

English

Alternative forms

• adæquate (archaic)

Etymology

Latin adaequatus, past participle of adaequare (“to make equal to”); ad + aequare (“to make equal”), aequus (“equal”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈæd.ʌ.kwɪt/

Adjective

adequate (comparative more adequate, superlative most adequate)

1. Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition lawfully and physically sufficient.
   • All day, as I drove upon my round, I turned over the case in my mind and found no explanation which appeared to me to be adequate. —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in The Adventure of the Empty House

Antonyms

• inadequate

Translations

equal to some requirement

Arabic: كاف (ar) (kaaf) Bulgarian: адекватен (bg), съответен (bg), съразмерен (bg) Catalan: adequat (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 足夠 (zh), 足够 (zh) (zúgòu), 適當 (zh), 适当 (zh) (shìdàng) Czech: přiměřený (cs), odpovídající (cs), adekvátní (cs) Danish: tilstrækkelig (da) Dutch: adequaat (nl), voldoende (nl), deugdelijk (nl) Finnish: riittävä (fi) French: adéquat (fr) German: angemessen (de), adäquat (de)

Hungarian: adekvát (hu) Italian: adeguato (it) Japanese: 適切 (ja) (tekisetsu) Korean: 충분한 choong-boon-hahn Norwegian: adekvat (no), tilstrekkelig (no) Polish: adekwatny (pl), odpowiedni (pl) Portuguese: adequado (pt) Spanish: adecuado (es) Swedish: adekvat (sv), tillämplig (sv) Turkish: yeterli (tr), uygun (tr) Vietnamese: đủ (vi), đầy đủ (vi)