verb
definition
To equalize; to make adequate.
definition
To equal.
adjective
definition
Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.
example
an adequate definition
synonyms
Examples of adequate in a Sentence
We agreed the set up was adequate and thanked him for his efforts.
We may accept Dorner's definition as adequate and satisfactory.
The prince's character was not attractive, and the king refused to make him an adequate allowance.
The probability of miracles depends on the conception we have of the free relation of God to nature, and of nature as the adequate organ for the fulfilment of God's purposes.
Most days were blessed by a sun that warmed you enough that a couple of heavy sweaters were more than adequate outer wear.
Along with this advocacy of internationalism goes a plea for the disendowment of the Church, in order to provide an adequate financial basis for the future Crusade.
The town's promenaders were clothed in sweaters at most, with only tee shirts adequate in the brilliant sun.
At first he threw himself with great energy into the task of building up an adequate system of schools.
The few signs I used became less and less adequate, and my failures to make myself understood were invariably followed by outbursts of passion.
Revenues were not realized adequate to its lavish undertakings, and loans were used to meet current expenses.
His gloves, adequate for snow shoveling, were poor equipment to safely grasp a rope that supported his full weight.
The question is whether these explanations are adequate.
The motel was an independent, adequate at best, barely holding its own against the national chains.
No other feed is required, the only provision necessary being an adequate supply of water and an occasional allowance of salt.
For this he wrote the first adequate account in German of the Darwinian theory of natural selection, which drew a warm letter of appreciation from Darwin himself.
It was nowhere near as large as their true home but was comfortable and well-maintained, an adequate place for him, his sisters, and now his lifemate.
Anybody with a varied diet will anyway ingest adequate fluoride.
This was inevitable in the absence of trustworthy information on an adequate scale, and from the immediately practical aims of the writers.
The buildings should all be fitted with adequate acoustic insulation.
The boot is ample, rear seat legroom is adequate.
It is clear that in the interests of general economic theory we require a vast number of special studies before an adequate restatement can be undertaken.
As a consequence there was little time for adequate auscultation and the intrapartum asphyxia rate was high.
Adequate fire precautions have been taken to ensure the animals safety in the case of fire precautions have been taken to ensure the animals safety in the case of fire.
A simple night latch lock does not provide adequate security on its own.
To be a fully qualified plumber you need an adequate amount of practical study to accompany the theoretical side.
Find out if they are doing a raffle (meaning they didn't get a lot), or a first come/first serve line (got adequate quantities), or doing nothing (didn't get any/just selling games).
They're adequate for the game; in fact, flashier graphics would probably be too distracting for a game like ''Pop n Drop''.
There are besides an adequate number of training institutes for teachers, a great number of schools of commerce, several art schools - for design, painting, sculpture, music, &c. Most of these special schools are of recent origin, and are almost entirely maintained by the state or the communes.
In the second year of his reign he undertook personally the gigantic task of providing Hungary with an army adequate to her various needs on the model of the best military science of the day.
By the compact of Farkashida (1490) Wladislaus not only confirmed all the Matthian privileges, but also repealed all the Matthian novelties, including the system of taxation which had enabled his predecessor to keep on foot an adequate national army.
The police afford no adequate protection to the lives and property of the inhabitants of Johannesburg; they are rather a source of danger to the peace and safety of the Uitlander population.
Generally speaking, soils containing from 30 to 50% of clay and 50 to 60% of sand with an adequate amount of vegetable residues prove the most useful for ordinary farm and garden crops; such blends are known as " loams," those in which clay predominates being termed clay loalns, and those in which the sand predominates sandy roams. " Stiff clays " contain over 50% of clay; " light sands " have less than to %.
As for the qualities necessary to secure success as a writer on history, he felt that he possessed them in a high degree; and, though neither his ideal of an historian nor his equipment for the task of historical research would now appear adequate, in both he was much in advance of his time.
Alternatively, the absorption coefficient maps can be calculated based on an adequate model of the sample.
Treatment Currently there is no cure for RRP and management is aimed at maintaining airway patency and adequate voice.
The permeability of the tomato epidermal peels to the exogenous chemicals was tested and found to be adequate.
The extent of the operations and the gravity of the situation now began to be felt in England; every available man was called up from the reserves, and the war office made what at the time appeared to be adequate provision for the waste which it was seen would occur.
Bloemfontein, President Kruger himself arriving on the scene to give confidence to his burghers; but the demoralization was so great that neither the military genius of the few nor the personal influence of the president could bolster up an adequate resistance, and on the 13th of March 1900 Lord Roberts's army marched into the Free State capital.
It is often difficult to obtain quite accurate or even adequate reproductions of scenes and subjects, and, when this is done, it is obviously necessary to refrain from treating the work of the old artists and sculptors as equivalent to photographic representations.
The number of field battalions was nearly doubled, two-thirds of the artillery received breech-loading rifled guns, the infantry had for some years had the breech-loading "needlegun," and steps were initiated to train an adequate number of staff officers to a uniform appreciation of strategical problems, based on Moltke's personal interpretation of Clausewitz's Vom Kriege.
Russia had in consequence been virtually cut off from intercourse by water with the outer world, seeing that the Baltic likewise was closed owing to action of the German navy; no adequate outlet for the Russian Empire's produce remained available; the most promising avenue for the introduction of warlike stores into the Tsar's dominions from without had been effectually barred.
On the other hand, the Turks, who were commanded by Essad, had likewise dug themselves in, and they could bring an effective artillery fire to bear on the Anzac trenches from three sides, the prospect of the landing force making any effective progress under the awkward conditions of ground in which it found itself was remote, and Birdwood's contingents had in reality been even less successful than had those detailed for Helles as regards securing an adequate area on the enemy's shores before the defence gathered strength.
No adequate reason has been shown for suspecting that the note is interpolated at any point.
But its views were not systematic and comprehensive in regard to the nations in general, while as regards the individual it held that God's service here was its own and adequate reward, and saw no need of postulating another world to set right the evils of this.
But later, with the growing claims of the individual and the acknowledgment of these in the religious and intellectual life, both problems, and especially the latter, pressed themselves irresistibly on the notice of religious thinkers, and made it impossible for any conception of the divine rule and righteousness to gain acceptance, which did not render adequate satisfaction to the claims of both problems. To render such satisfaction was the task undertaken by apocalyptic, as well as to vindicate the righteousness of God alike in respect of the individual and of the nation.
Prisoners began to arrive in February 1864, before the prison was completed and before adequate supplies had been received, and in May their number amounted to about 12,000.
It might be supposed that all possible methods had now been considered, and that a combination of the three methods which have established their validity in relation to the interpretation of the Apocalypse would be adequate to the solution of all the problems of the book, but this is not so; for even when each in turn has vindicated the provinces in the book that rightly belong to it, and brought intelligibility into these areas, there still remain outlying regions which they fail to illumine.
Nor is it possible to accept Gunkel's theory in Schiipfung and Chaos as an adequate explanation, who explained the author's conviction of the truth of his message as springing always from the fact that he was dealing with traditional material.
He urges that an adequate explanation is impossible on the assumption of a Jewish or Christian origin.
When the Mongol conquests threw Asia open to Frank travellers in the middle of the 13th century their minds were full of Prester John; they sought in vain for an adequate representative, nor was it in the nature of things that they should not find some representative.