adequate
Academic Word List, sublist 4.
About 36.09 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.
powers adequate to a great work
- determiner A sufficient amount of; enough.
We have adequate money for the journey.
- verb To equalize; to make adequate.
- verb To equal.
Similar words
sufficient satisfactory decent passable enough competent capable up to fair to middling adequate to
Often followed by
to for and supply protection in information provision time
Word family
adequacy adequately adequateness adequatenesses
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