adequate

adjectivedeterminerverbattested in dialogue

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Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.

adjective

1
Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.
powers adequate to a great work
an adequate definition
Proportion therefore your Clothes to your bodies, and let them be proper for your persons. […] Agreeableness […] ought to be exact, and adequate both to age, person and condition, avoiding extremities on both sides, being neither too much out, nor in the fashions.
Her legal allowance was not adequate to her fortune, nor sufficient for her comfortable maintenance […]

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Italic *aikʷos? Old Latin aiquos Latin aequus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin aequō Latin adaequō Latin adaequātuslbor. English adequate Learned borrowing from Latin adaequātus, perfect passive participle of adaequō (“to make equal to”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from ad (“to, towards, at”) + aequō (“to make equal, equalize”), from aequus (“equal”). Cognate with French adéquat. By surface analysis, ad- + equate.

determiner

1
A sufficient amount of; enough.
We have adequate money for the journey.

verb

1
obsoleteTo equalize; to make adequate.
Let me giue yet one instance more, of a truly intellectuall obiect, exactly adequated and proportioned vnto the intellectuall appetite.
2
obsoleteTo equal.
[…] though it be an impossibilitie for any creature to adequate God in his eternitie, yet he hath ordained all his sonnes in Christ to partake of it by living with him eternally.

Forms

comparative: more adequate
superlative: most adequate
past tense: adequated
past participle: adequated
present participle: adequating
third person singular: adequates

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adequate · Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.

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