Inadequate
[ɪn'ædɪkwət]
Definition
(adj.) lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task; 'inadequate training'; 'the staff was inadequate'; 'she was unequal to the task' .
(adj.) not sufficient to meet a need; 'an inadequate income'; 'a poor salary'; 'money is short'; 'on short rations'; 'food is in short supply'; 'short on experience' .
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Definition
(a.) Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions, representations, etc.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Insufficient, unequal, disproportionate.[2]. Incomplete, defective.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ADEQUATE]
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Definition
adj. insufficient.—ns. Inad′equacy Inad′equateness insufficiency.—adv. Inad′equately.
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Examples
- Language is always grossly inadequate. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- As for his own inadequate English, he was much too awkward to try it at all. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Their training was legal and therefore utterly inadequate, but it was all they had. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- No matter which one you examine, it is inadequate. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- So that the lofty pile of sedimentary rocks in Britain gives but an inadequate idea of the time which has elapsed during their accumulation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He had been familiar with every species of human misery, and had for ever found his powers inadequate, his aid of small avail. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The sewage disposal is often inadequate and badly planned, and the water becomes dangerously contaminated. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Mrs. Elton's resources were inadequate to such an attack. Jane Austen. Emma.
- For this task his early education might at first glance seem inadequate. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Four sides of incoherent and interjectional beginnings of sentences, that had no end, except blots, were inadequate to afford her any relief. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Hence it will never be discarded by those who can afford its use; but it alone is inadequate for heating and cooking purposes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Interesting, but inadequate. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- All that I should express would be inadequate and feeble. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Nevertheless, these statements convey only an inadequate idea of the true significance of the movement. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- That conscience was inadequate and unintelligent. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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