adequately

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in an adequate manner or to an adequate degree

   They were adequately prepared.

2. 2
   adv

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

   A loving relationship with a proper companion animal, a relationship that adequately provides for the animal's physical and psychological needs, is not at all inconsistent with the principles and advocacy of animal rights.

3. 3
   adv

   In an adequate manner.

4. 4
   adv

   Barely satisfactory or sufficient.

Etymology

From adequate + -ly.