Definitions for adequately
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. adequatelyadverb

   in an adequate manner or to an adequate degree

   "he was adequately prepared"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. adequatelyadverb

   In an adequate manner.

2. adequatelyadverb

   Sufficient to satisfy a requirement or meet a need; sufficiently; satisfactorily.

3. adequatelyadverb

   Barely satisfactory or sufficient.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Adequatelyadverb

   Etymology: from adequate.

   1. In an adequate manner; with justness of representation; with exactness of proportion.

   Gratitude consists adequately in these two things: first, that it is a debt; and, secondly, that it is such a debt as is left to every man’s ingenuity, whether he will pay or no. South.

   2. It is used with the particle to.

   Piety is the necessary christian virtue, proportioned adequately to the omniscience and spirituality of that infinite Deity. Henry Hammond, Fundamentals.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. Adequatelyadverb

   in an adequate manner

British National Corpus

1. Adverbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'adequately' in Adverbs Frequency: #406

How to pronounce adequately?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say adequately in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of adequately in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of adequately in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of adequately in a Sentence

1. Gabrielle Rose:

   I'm dumbfounded as to why the government would deny George Newhouse the opportunity to be with George Newhouse family and yet at the same time, from what we've been told, they were failing to adequately care for George Newhouse, that unnecessary cruelty hastened George Newhouse decline.

2. Joni Ernst:

   The root cause is not that we have the Second Amendment, it is that we’re not adequately addressing mental illness across the United States. We need to focus on that, and we need to focus on substance abuse.

3. Bill Flynn:

   We have no words that can adequately express our sorrow for those who lost a loved one or who were hurt in this horrible event. They are in our thoughts and prayers.

4. James Acton:

   Under normal circumstances, the likelihood of a reactor losing power and of the emergency diesel generators being damaged and of not being repaired adequately quickly is very, very small, but in a war, all of these different failures that would have to happen for a reactor to become damaged and meltdown — the likelihood of all of those happening becomes much more likely than it does in peacetime.

5. Malcolm Kohler:

   Most doctors still consider CPAP as first-line treatment for patients with obstructive sleep apnea, if a patient can not really use CPAP adequately e.g. only two to three hours per night, but does fine with a MAD which he can tolerate for seven hours a night, then he should be treated with a MAD.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=adequately
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Adequately
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=adequately
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adequately