adequate

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task

   I had adequate training and still failed to complete the marathon.

2. 2
   adj

   sufficient for the purpose

   an adequate income

3. 3
   adj

   Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.

   powers adequate to a great work

4. 4
   det

   A sufficient amount of; enough.

   We have adequate money for the journey.

5. 5
   verb

   To equalize; to make adequate.

   Let me giue yet one instance more, of a truly intellectuall obiect, exactly adequated and proportioned vnto the intellectuall appetite.

6. 6
   verb

   To 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.

7. 7
   adj

   about average

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Italic *aikʷos Latin aiquos Latin aequus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti 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”). C…