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adequate 音标拼音: ['ædəkwət] ['ædəkw ,et] a. 足够的,充分的;适当的,适合的 足够的,充分的;适当的,适合的 adequate adj 1: having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task; " she had adequate training"; " her training was adequate"; " she was adequate to the job"; " he was equal to the task" [ synonym: { adequate}, { equal}] [ ant: { inadequate}, { unequal}] 2: sufficient for the purpose; " an adequate income"; " the food was adequate"; " a decent wage"; " enough food"; " food enough" [ synonym: { adequate}, { decent}, { enough}] 3: about average; acceptable; " more than adequate as a secretary" [ synonym: { adequate}, { passable}, { fair to middling}, { tolerable}] Adequate \ Ad" e* quate\, a. [ L. adaequatus, p. p. of adaequare to make equal to; ad aequare to make equal, aequus equal. See { Equal}.] Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition. [ 1913 Webster] Ireland had no adequate champion. -- De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Proportionate; commensurate; sufficient; suitable; competent; capable. [ 1913 Webster]
Adequate \ Ad" e* quate\, v. t. [ See { Adequate}, a.] 1. To equalize; to make adequate. [ R.] -- Fotherby. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To equal. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] It [ is] an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity. -- Shelford. [ 1913 Webster] 74 Moby Thesaurus words for " adequate": OK, able, acceptable, admissible, all right, ample, average, barely sufficient, better than nothing, capable, comfortable, commensurate, common, competent, corresponding, decent, due, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, enough, equal, equal to, fair, fair to middling, fairish, fit, fitted, fitting, good, good enough, goodish, middling, minimal, minimum, moderate, no great shakes, not amiss, not bad, not half bad, not so bad, okay, passable, plenty, plenty good enough, presentable, pretty good, productive, proficient, proper, proportionable, proportionate, qualified, respectable, satisfactory, satisfying, so so, substantial, sufficient, sufficient for, sufficing, suitable, suited, tidy, tolerable, unexceptionable, unexceptional, unimpeachable, unobjectionable, up, up to, up to snuff, workmanlike |
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