adequate adj

1 (sometimes followed by `to') meeting the requirements especially of a task; "she had adequate training"; "her training was adequate"; "she was adequate to the job" [ant: inadequate]

2 enough to meet a purpose; "an adequate income"; "the food was adequate"; "a decent wage"; "enough food"; "food enough" [syn: decent, enough]

3 about average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary" [syn: passable, fair to middling]

English

Etymology

adaequatus, p. p. of adaequare to make equal to; ad + aequare to make equal, aequus equal.

Pronunciation

IPA: WEAE /ˈæd.ʌ.kwɪt/

Adjective

1. Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition lawfully and physically sufficient.

Antonyms

• inadequate

Quotations

• All day, as I drove upon my round, I turned over the case in my mind and found no explanation which appeared to me to be adequate. —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in The Adventure of the Empty House

Translations

• Chinese:适当的，足够的
• Danish: tilstrækklig
• Dutch: adequaat
• French: adéquat
• German: angemessen, adäquat
• Korean: 충분한 choong-boon-hahn
• Vietnamese: đủ, đầy đủ
• Turkish: yeterli, uygun
• Polish: adekwatny, odpowiedni
• Dutch: voldoende, deugdelijk
• Czech: vhodný, odpovídající, adekvátní
• Italian: adeguato
• Portuguese: adequado
• Swedish: adekvat, tillämplig

Adaptation may refer to

• Adaptation, an anatomical structure, physiological process or behavioral trait that has evolved.
• Cellular adaptation, the changes made by a cell in response to changes in its environment.
• Neural adaptation, the ability of neural systems to change their response behaviour depending on the recent stimulus history.
  • Adaptation (eye), ability of the eye to adjust to various levels of darkness and light.
• Adapted process, a type of stochastic process.
• Adapting to change (e.g. adaptation to global warming), contrast with mitigation.

In the arts

• Film adaptation, whose theme, story, or structure is based on another (usually literary) work.
• Literary adaptation, wherein the central elements of a film or other visual medium are adapted into a novel, novella, or comic book.
• Theatrical adaptation, wherein the central elements of a story, either from another play or from another medium, are adapted for the stage.
• Adaptation., 2002 film starring Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep, directed by Spike Jonze

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