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 of pluralism reject this as inadequate.
▪ You do not try to catch them out, to trap them or to expose them as inadequate in any way.
▪ I take exception to that and regard it as inadequate, for two fundamental reasons.
▪ Hitherto the instrumental approach to law has been criticized as inadequate to provide a coherent explanation for contradictory tendencies in legal developments.
completely
▪ We have seen that the inspection facilities of the International Atomic Energy Agency are completely inadequate.
▪ Housing in the inner cities was completely inadequate.
▪ Opposition Diet members denounced the testimony of both Takeshita and Kanemaru as completely inadequate.
▪ Officials at 43 percent of California schools complained that at least one of their buildings is completely inadequate.
▪ EHOs said the domestic kitchen was completely inadequate for cooking on such a scale.
grossly
▪ Some people are better than others in the use of words, but for some feelings, words always seem grossly inadequate.
▪ But the more all of us looked at it, we have found it grossly inadequate.
▪ In addition medical examinations and records are often grossly inadequate.
▪ For the interactionists this was grossly inadequate.
hopelessly
▪ It had proved hopelessly inadequate during the revolution of 1905-6.
▪ These students traverse course after remedial course, becoming increasingly turned off to writing, increasingly convinced that they are hopelessly inadequate.
how
▪ Merely to embark on such an approach reveals how inadequate and simplistic it is.
▪ She enrolled at a Colorado community college and discovered how inadequate her education had been when she tested at the remedial level.
▪ The more she picked up about his past, the more she realized how inadequate her vision of the world had been.
often
▪ The content of curricula is often inadequate.
▪ Finally, the data available is often inadequate to test fully the theories put forward.
▪ These premises are often inadequate to support good practice.
▪ The legislation that exists to protect endangered species is often inadequate and lacks proper enforcement.
▪ The people who lived there had to rely on rainwater, which in the summer was often inadequate.
▪ Morphine alone is often inadequate, but there is nothing paradoxical about this.
▪ The number of cars has increased and the roads are all too often inadequate to take them.
quite
▪ Unfortunately, the system never worked properly, was quite inadequate for the broker's needs and was eventually scrapped.
▪ In these houses there was no proper conversion, and cooking and sanitary facilities were quite inadequate.
▪ It is clear that the timetable is quite inadequate to deal with such important matters.
▪ In a multi-component disordered solid like soda-lime-silica glass a single spherically averaged diffraction pattern is quite inadequate.
▪ The telephone service is still quite inadequate.
▪ But these sources were quite inadequate.
▪ The report provides considerable evidence that the traditional performance indicators of higher education success are quite inadequate.
▪ The thin gown of emerald green silk was quite inadequate to the task of concealing what lay beneath.
so
▪ I find it hard to say, because it seems so inadequate to describe what we felt.
▪ Other softball teams avoid playing at Northridge because the facility is so inadequate.
▪ Lewis's footwork, so inadequate early in his career, was impressive.
▪ He could make her feel so inadequate.
▪ Food and hygiene were so inadequate that there was an extremely high death rate.
still
▪ Despite remedial work, which Howard acknowledged on a second visit in 1786, the prison was clearly still inadequate.
▪ A break-down in the number of male and female students shows that the number of female graduates is still inadequate.
▪ The system of inspection is still inadequate in many areas.
▪ Historical records extend only a few thousand years, a time span that is still inadequate to treat slow geologic processes.
▪ Second, the technology for cleaning a site, rather than simply sealing it, is still inadequate and expensive.
▪ But time spent on science was still inadequate.
▪ These criteria, however, are still inadequate for constructing a satisfactory typology of political systems.
▪ Standards can be set, but arrangements for ensuring that they are maintained in the private sector are still inadequate.
totally
▪ Is the Marxist explanation, therefore, totally inadequate?
▪ Residential provision is extremely important and at present totally inadequate in terms of the extent of the need.
▪ About half the impoverished households have one member employed, but their wage is totally inadequate.
▪ The local people naturally defend their crops, usually with totally inadequate weapons such as ancient shotguns loaded with buckshot.
▪ Two bascule bridges and one swing bridge further upstream had become totally inadequate.
▪ Mr Milburn slammed the rise as totally inadequate.
▪ Today's local area network systems are totally inadequate for such gigantic flows of information.
very
▪ It was very inadequate at times, especially in winter if you were on point duty.
▪ And we have a very inadequate system for long-term care or assistance for people with chronic medical conditions.
▪ It seems almost profane to try to describe the feeling because words are so very inadequate.
wholly
▪ Also the warning system was wholly inadequate.
▪ The traditional shop class is wholly inadequate to prepare young people for this new world.
▪ Council representatives immediately criticised the allocations as wholly inadequate.
▪ All the obvious expressions of sympathy were wholly inadequate.
▪ The time-consuming tasks of keeping families clean and fed were for the most part carried out with wholly inadequate equipment in depressing surroundings.
▪ The fog bank was unattainable and rather than surrender, Kennedy opened fire against both vessels with his antique and wholly inadequate guns.
woefully
▪ As such, it is woefully inadequate.
▪ But the overriding image carried every night on the evening news has been one of a woefully inadequate effort.
▪ Their artist's impressions were woefully inadequate, though, so I binned it.
▪ Dependent on woefully inadequate soup kitchens, they died on the streets.
▪ But as a theoretical basis for the protection of these rights and freedoms, such ideas are woefully inadequate.
▪ Unfortunately, partner reduction proved woefully inadequate by itself.
▪ The committee system is woefully inadequate.
▪ Education also needs equipment - buildings, books, scientific apparatus, even paper, pencils and slates are woefully inadequate.
■ NOUN
attention
▪ There is no doubt that the chronic and long-term needs of older people receive inadequate attention at present.
▪ This is a key aspect of the refugee question which has so far received inadequate attention.
▪ Even the best selection procedures may be for nothing if inadequate attention is given to transitional learning.
housing
▪ Lack of proper equipment, inadequate housing - are such considerations in fact a cause of dissatisfaction?
▪ Any problems with parenting are routinely exacerbated by poverty, inadequate housing, harassment, and constant anxiety about losing the child.
▪ Since women outlive men in substantial numbers, inadequate housing is more a problem for elderly women than for elderly men.
information
▪ Impulsive A choice based on inadequate information responding to a feeling of urgency.
▪ Lord Ross declared that the warrant had been obtained on inadequate information and the court awarded expenses to Mr Guest.
▪ These are externalities, imperfect competition and inadequate information.
▪ Armed with inadequate information he usually fails to see why one moment is better for putting in a tack than any other.
knowledge
▪ Reduced to simple terms, those with the power have inadequate knowledge, those with the knowledge have inadequate power.
provision
▪ Most homes have inadequate provision for lighting.
▪ Instead of preventing proliferation, it has promoted it by allowing nations to protest innocence while violating the treaty's inadequate provisions.
response
▪ If an inadequate response was shown at six to twelve weeks in the dual regime, the treatment was intensified with stavudine.
▪ Thus there are several patients with an inadequate response who are remaining well despite an unsatisfactory viral load.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Inadequate lighting made it difficult to continue the work after dinner.
▪ An inadequate supply of vitamin A can lead to blindness.
▪ My light clothing was hopelessly inadequate for the cold Japanese winter.
▪ The amount of fertilizer used was inadequate to ensure a good harvest.
▪ The disease spread quickly because of poor living conditions and inadequate health care.
▪ The state pension is wholly inadequate -- no one can live on £50 a week.
▪ The training that nurses get is woefully inadequate.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He could make her feel so inadequate.
▪ In the course of things, some drivers already have quit, complaining of long hours, inadequate pay and poor organization.
▪ In their opinion, such deficiencies clearly led to inadequate administrative back-stopping and faulty interpersonal relations.
▪ Often the results are wrong, inadequate, untrustworthy, unreliable, and self-serving.
▪ The content of curricula is often inadequate.
▪ The plan was regarded in many quarters as inadequate, however.
▪ These five areas of concern indicated that an improved and modified manual personnel records system would be inadequate.
▪ Those scientists chose to modify the protective belt of the programme by proposing that the initial conditions were inadequate.