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Adequately

Adequately \Ad"e*quate*ly\, adv. In an adequate manner.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
adequately

1620s, from adequate + -ly (2); originally a term in logic in reference to correspondence of ideas and objects. Meaning "suitably" is recorded from 1680s.

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adequately

adv. 1 In an adequate manner. 2 sufficient to satisfy a requirement or meet a need; sufficiently; satisfactorily. 3 barely satisfactory or sufficient.

WordNet
adequately
  1. adv. in an adequate manner

  2. in an adequate manner or to an adequate degree; "he was adequately prepared" [ant: inadequately]

Usage examples of "adequately".

It appears, then, that progressive degeneration of an organ can be adequately explained by variation with the removal of natural selection, and that it is not necessary or desirable to appeal to any Lamarckian factor of an unexplainable and undemonstrable nature.

There are cases where it is advisable, in states too poor or niggardly to care adequately for their defectives and delinquents, but eugenists should favor segregation as the main policy, with sterilization for the special cases as previously indicated.

A very large number of causes are unquestionably at work to the same end, and the result can be adequately changed only if it is analyzed into as many of its component parts as possible, and each one of these dealt with separately.

Thus the states may regulate matters which, because of their number and diversity, may never be adequately dealt with by Congress.

Congress should fail to act, and act adequately, I shall accept the responsibility, and I will act.

Whether a federal question has been adequately presented to and decided by a State court has been held to be in itself a federal question, to be decided by the Supreme Court on appeal.

Nor is the argument of the defendants adequately met by citing isolated cases.

An order enjoining certain steam railroads from discriminating against an electric railroad by denying it reciprocal switching privileges did not violate the Fifth Amendment even though its practical effect was to admit the electric road to a part of the business being adequately handled by the steam roads.

Negroes who had received sentences of death for rape, and asserted that, at least in capital cases, where the defendant is unable to employ counsel and is incapable adequately of making his own defense because of ignorance, illiteracy, or the like, it is the duty of the court, whether requested or not, to assign counsel for him as a necessary requisite of due process of Law.

When that has been done, the burden rests on the regulated company to show that this item has neither been adequately covered in the rate base nor recouped from prior earnings of the business.

Not even a droplet of all thine endless love can I aspire to fathom, nor can I adequately praise and tell of even the most trifling out of all the events of thy precious life.

We failed to appreciate adequately what her presence among us meant and it is only now, when she has gone for ever, that we come to realize the irreparable character of our loss.

His grief is too immense and his loss too heavy to be adequately expressed in words.

Faith has suffered through the passing of the Greatest Holy Leaf is too immense to be adequately expressed in words, and we cannot fully realize its significance at the present stage of the evolution of the Cause.

The men will be adequately recompensed by the reds and blues and silver streaks we have introduced into the gray tusche of their lives.