noun
definition
An individual who is inadequate.
adjective
definition
Not adequate; not fit for the purpose
example
inadequate representation
synonyms
Examples of inadequate in a Sentence
Gabriel had never felt inadequate in his life until that moment.
His size was inadequate for any hopes of a serious basketball future but he was obviously a fine athlete.
The force was inadequate, but it was all that Holland could spare.
Transport facilities are inadequate.
I've tossed him a scrap of bread but I fear it will be inadequate to meet his long-term needs.
During each stage, inadequate hormone stimulation will prevent normal development.
All this concern was making him feel inadequate.
Some, but not all, are due to inadequate androgen stimulation.
Again, not every defect is due to inadequate hormones.
Though cost is important, you do not want to spend money for an inadequate policy.
But the question of knowledge was never generalized by them, and their reply to Hume, therefore, remains partial and inadequate, while its effect is weakened by the uncritical assumption of principles which is a characteristic feature of their writings.
The French subsidies, which might have sufficed for a six weeks' demonstration (it was generally assumed that the king of Prussia would give little trouble to a European coalition), proved quite inadequate; and, after five unsuccessful campaigns, the unhappy Hats were glad to make peace and ignomini- YearsThe Sevenar.
Issues affecting low-income students, such as inadequate health care, homelessness, and minimal parental involvement are also not addressed.
Again, this comprises unstructured, one-time assistance, very expensive and/or totally inadequate for the needs of a growing business.
Inadequate amounts force your body to break down your bones to obtain enough minerals for its needs.
Many small businesses fail within just two years of start up because they had inadequate funds to play the advertising game.
Eating on the run and eating nutritionally inadequate food can cause women to gain weight, retain fluid, have digestive disturbances, and increases the chance for health issues to develop.
It also includes coverage for inadequate building insurance.
What a shame it would be to have inadequate insurance coverage on a yacht when an accident occurs.
Not asking the right questions and demanding proper coverage may eventually result in inadequate coverage for a very valuable watercraft.
When the yacht is used for profit, it changes the scope of the insurance policy and makes regular policies inadequate.
Some provide inadequate coverage or coverage that you are less-likely to qualify for.
Wearing a bra that is too small can inhibit circulation and be extremely uncomfortable for daily wear, while wearing a bra that's too loose may offer inadequate support and appear bulky beneath your clothes.
Despite the many good bras available, more than half of active women can experience some pain during exercise, due to inadequate support.
While these assets upgraded our efficiency, the LeBlanc house continued to be inadequate.
He anticipated the ideals of Peter the Great, and only failed in realizing them because his material resources were inadequate.
Now there is no reason to believe that meteors in anything like this quantity can be supplied to the sun, and, therefore, we must reject this source as also inadequate.
No alternative hypothesis prevails, mere desultory criticism of the internal intricacies being quite inadequate.
As an explanation of what has taken place in later years, or of the actual economic life of the present day, it is ludicrously inadequate.
This system has in great measure been followed throughout the present work, but it is obvious that in numerous instances these rules must prove inadequate.
His political programme was, however, entirely subordinate to the social, that of bettering the condition of the working classes, for which he believed the schemes of Schulze-Delitzsch were utterly inadequate.
We have now to consider the reasons for rejecting this definition as inadequate.
When Pemberton's army was besieged in Vicksburg by Grant, Johnston used every effort to relieve it, but his force was inadequate.
General Johnston was recalled to active service, and showed his usual skill, but his forces were inadequate.
There is no good history of Agenais; that published by Jules Andrieu in 1893 (Histoire de l'Agenais, 2 vols.) being quite inadequate.
The key of the duke's position was now in Napoleon's hands, Wellington's centre was dangerously shaken, the troops were exhausted, and the reserves inadequate.
But these measures proved inadequate, and in 1533 the lord marcher, Ostafi Daszkiewicz, the hero of Kaniev, which he had successfully defended against a countless host of Turks and Tatars, was consulted by the diet as to the best way of defending the Ukraine permanently against such inroads.
But it did nothing for the southern lakes, so that a further system of dikes was recommended in preference, in 1614, by the Dutch engineer Adrian Boot; it was inadequate for its work and, not being lined with masonry, it was liable to be choked by falls.
The inadequate results of the British campaigns against the northern colonies in 1776 and 1777 led the home government to turn its attention to the weaker colonies in the south.
A small British force sent to assist in its defence proved altogether inadequate and had to retreat to Aden.
On the other hand, there are still more fundamental points in which the first three books of the Eudemian Ethics are a very inadequate preparation for the common books.
But the Rhetoric to Alexander was considered spurious by Erasmus, for the inadequate reasons that it has a preface and is not mentioned in the list of Diogenes Laertius, and was assigned by Petrus Victorius, in his preface to the Rhetoric, to Anaximenes.
The slope of the land is from north-west to south-east, but the general drainage is very inadequate.
The charges 1 were in part quite trivial, and the evidence was ridiculously inadequate for the graver charges.
But when the prophets were succeeded by the scribes, the interpreters of the written word, and the yoke of foreign oppressors rested on the land, Yahweh's kingship, which presupposed a living nation, found not even the most inadequate expression in daily political life.
In order to form a relative idea of the importance of the various countries engaged in silk manufacture, a tabulation of the number of looms employed in each country would prove an inadequate guide, owing to the variations from time to time of the fabrics woven, as also to the difficulty in obtaining trustworthy statistics of the number in active operation.
The exceptional position of the United States, with a population about equal to that of the rest of the American continent, and of Great Britain, an island state but little exposed to military invasion, places both beyond absolute need of large standing armies, and renders an enlisting system feasible which would be quite inadequate for the recruitment of armies on the French or German scale.
Not by any means an argument to be despised, but stopping short of the truth through an inadequate analytic of knowledge."
It is realism - but inconsequent and inadequate realism, something like that of Spencer; according, indeed, more knowledge of the distinction between Nature as condition of sensations and God as condition of Nature; but very like in holding that all we know of natural forces is our perceptions.
The publication of these papers is said to have exercised a beneficial influence in drawing attention to the inadequate calculations on which many insurance and benefit societies had recently been formed.