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Adjective adequate has 3 senses
- adequate - (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"
Antonyms: inadequate, deficient, lacking, wanting, incapable, incompetent, unequal to, short-handed, short-staffed, undermanned, understaffed
- adequate, decent, enough - enough to meet a purpose; "an adequate income"; "the food was adequate"; "a decent wage"; "enough food"; "food enough"
Antonyms: insufficient, deficient (indirect, via sufficient)
- adequate, passable, fair to middling - about average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary"
Antonym: unsatisfactory (indirect, via satisfactory)
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