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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

OK, able, acceptable, admissible, all right, ample, average, barely sufficient, better than nothing, capable, comfortable, commensurate, common, competent, corresponding, decent, due, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, enough, equal, equal to, fair, fair to middling, fairish, fit, fitted, fitting, good, good enough, goodish, middling, minimal, minimum, moderate, no great shakes, not amiss, not bad, not half bad, not so bad, okay, passable, plenty, plenty good enough, presentable, pretty good, productive, proficient, proper, proportionable, proportionate, qualified, respectable, satisfactory, satisfying, so so, substantial, sufficient, sufficient for, sufficing, suitable, suited, tidy, tolerable, unexceptionable, unexceptional, unimpeachable, unobjectionable, up, up to, up to snuff, workmanlike

Dictionary Results for adequate:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

adequate
    adj 1: having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a
           task; "she had adequate training"; "her training was
           adequate"; "she was adequate to the job"; "he was equal
           to the task" [syn: adequate, equal] [ant:
           inadequate, unequal]
    2: sufficient for the purpose; "an adequate income"; "the food
       was adequate"; "a decent wage"; "enough food"; "food enough"
       [syn: adequate, decent, enough]
    3: about average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a
       secretary" [syn: adequate, passable, fair to middling,
       tolerable]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Adequate \Ad"e*quate\, a. [L. adaequatus, p. p. of adaequare to
   make equal to; ad + aequare to make equal, aequus equal. See
   Equal.]
   Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent;
   fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an
   adequate definition.
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         Ireland had no adequate champion.        --De Quincey.
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   Syn: Proportionate; commensurate; sufficient; suitable;
        competent; capable.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Adequate \Ad"e*quate\, v. t. [See Adequate, a.]
   1. To equalize; to make adequate. [R.] --Fotherby.
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   2. To equal. [Obs.]
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            It [is] an impossibility for any creature to
            adequate God in his eternity.         --Shelford.
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