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inadequate
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s; see in- (1) "not, opposite of" + adequate . Related: Inadequately .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions, representations, etc. alt. Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions, representations, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB as ▪ These were described by the parents later as inadequate and often inaccurate. ▪ Meanwhile the Labour Party continues to be as inadequate in Opposition as it would be in government. ▪ Left-inclined critics ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (sometimes followed by `to') not meeting the requirements especially of a task; "inadequate training"; "the staff was inadequate"; "she was inadequate to the job" [ant: adequate ] not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; ...
Usage examples of inadequate.
Tosevites have to be addled to come up into space in your inadequate machines.
The android had felt that his responses were inadequate, and yet Adin seemed somehow comforted-as much so as a man could be who had been so often betrayed by fate.
Penfield believed that this lost accessing ability arises from an inadequate blood supply to the hippocampus in old age-because of arteriosclerosis or other physical disabilities.
Research has proved that the diet of the masses--mainly polished rice--is entirely inadequate to human needs, and that beriberi, a fatal sickness due to insufficient nourishment, is steadily increasing in the Islands.
I was saying to the Bibliomaniac this morning, your buckwheat cakes are, to my mind, the very highest development of our modern civilization, and to have even one of them wasted seems to me to be a crime against Nature herself, for which a second, third, or fourth shaking up of this earth would be an inadequate punishment.
The lifeless optelectronic brains of the berserkers never blundered, but sometimes they were forced to make decisions based on inadequate information.
One of the few things Dowling found inadequate in the enormous plan was its appreciation of Confederate strength.
It is by echolocation that dolphins can detect the presence of food and move toward it unerringly even in murky water and at night, when the sense of sight is inadequate.
But if it be the nature of a thinking being, as seems, prima facie, to be the case, to form true or adequate thoughts, it is plain that inadequate ideas arise in us only because we are parts of a thinking being, whose thoughts - some in their entirety, others in fragments only - constitute our mind.
An impaired hypothalamic hormone secretion led to an inadequate gonadotrophic secretion, which in turn blocked ovulation .
An impaired hypothalamic hormone secretion led to an inadequate gonadotrophic secretion, which in turn blocked ovulation.
Knowing that she should be in the kitchen with Huia, she pulled off her print, dragged the red lace over her head and looked at herself in the inadequate glass.
In Europe, Tom gathered, inadequate heating was a hallmark of chic in winter, like the iceless martini in summer.
A sufficiency of inscrutability seemed an inadequate recourse to rely upon.
States to tax and to reject as inadequate jurisdictional claims of the latter founded upon such bases as control, benefit, and protection or situs.