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adequately

adequately adverb: in an adequate manner.

Adverb

adequately (comparative more adequately, superlative most adequately)

  1. In an adequate manner.
  2. 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.2023 August 11 (last accessed), David Pearce, “Companion Animals”, in HedWeb
  3. Barely satisfactory or sufficient.

adequately meaning in Tamil and Bengali

adequately in Tamil

எய்த

adequately in Bengali

পর্যাপ্তভাবে

Examples of adequately in a sentence

  • Despite this, Podemos's beginnings are still illuminating to understand punk's scope of influence adequately.
  • I've flirted with these terms a bit already, without adequately exploring their trajectories.
  • Women's pelvises are wider, so wider saddles will support your sit bones more adequately.

All 40 example sentences with adequately

Forms of adequately

comparativemore adequately
superlativemost adequately
alternative form (archaic)adæquately

Origin of adequately

From adequate + -ly.

Words formed from adequately

Questions about adequately

What does adequately mean?
Adequately means in an adequate manner.
What is adequately in Tamil?
Adequately in Tamil is எய்த. See Adequately meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is adequately?
Adequately is an adverb.

Words near adequately in the dictionary

  1. adequality
  2. adequate
  3. adequate intake
  4. adequate intakes
  5. adequated
  6. adequately
  7. adequately wet
  8. adequateness
  9. adequatenesses
  10. adequates
  11. adequating

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: adequately (page history and authors); adequately (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adequately (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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