释义
[ in-ad -i-kwit ] SHOW IPA
/ ɪnˈæd ɪ kwɪt / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective not adequate or sufficient; inept or unsuitable.
Psychiatry . ineffectual in response to emotional, social, intellectual, and physical demands in the absence of any obvious mental or physical deficiency.
Origin of inadequate First recorded in 1665–75; in-3 + adequate
SYNONYMS FOR inadequate 1 inapt, incompetent; incommensurate; defective, imperfect, incomplete.
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OTHER WORDS FROM inadequate in·ad·e·quate·ly, adverb Words nearby inadequate inactivated poliovirus vaccine, inactive, inactive repressor, in addition, inadequacy, inadequate , inadequate personality, inadequate stimulus, in a dither, inadmissible, in advance
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Example sentences from the Web for inadequate Obsessive exercising and inadequate nutrition can, over time, put people at high risk for overuse injuries like stress fractures.
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“There was a sense the response had been inadequate and slow,” Reed says.
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The state of childcare in this nation goes from inadequate to deplorable, even as compared to the child care centers of the 1940s.
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Contrivance and expedient presented themselves,—all inadequate to the emergency.
Language is inadequate to describe what I felt in rising continually upwards through this bright and luminous atmosphere.
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Now, if we had an alphabet that was adequate and competent, instead of inadequate and incompetent, things would be different.
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Michael was vaguely reminded of Mr. Prout and his inadequate oratory.
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Sometimes we are moved by a realization that, left to ourselves, we are inadequate , that apart from God we are insufficient.
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British Dictionary definitions for inadequate adjective not adequate; insufficient
not capable or competent; lacking
Derived forms of inadequate inadequacy , noun inadequately , adverb Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Words related to inadequate poor, unequal, lacking, deficient, weak, meager, sketchy, scarce, faulty, incompetent, incomplete, skimpy, bare, barren, bush-league, depleted, dry, failing, feeble, glitch