Adjective : This car is adequate to our needs. adequate food for fifty people. ,Being adequate is not good enough. ,adequate grounds. From Dictionary.com.
Briefly stated, these are: the wholesomeness of the water, the adequateness and steadiness of the supply, its availability under a sufficient pressure, insuring a good flow, and the legal restrictions with which many water-supply problems are surrounded. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference
This wide range of variability between definite limits is coupled with a high degree of sensibility and adequateness to the most diverging experiments. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
A criticism for the ungraded approach is philosophical in nature and it concerns its adequateness to represent the daily reasonings in which vague predicates occur. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
We need not here discuss the philosophical truth or adequateness of these ways of considering the origin and nature of knowledge, or the composition of human character. From Wordnik.com. [Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)] Reference
This is not a proper occasion for saying anything about the adequateness of the catholic, or any other special manner of fostering and solacing the religious impulses of men. From Wordnik.com. [On Compromise] Reference
In maturity of development, in intellectual force, in beauty of expression, and in general adequateness, De los nombres de Cristo exhibits Luis de Leon's prose at its culmination. From Wordnik.com. [Fray Luis de Leon]
It looks at different kinds of business information, and attempts to quantify the gap between the importance of certain kinds of information (e.g. business value), and the adequateness of the information being currently provided. From Wordnik.com. [Chuck's Blog] Reference
When they have named certain advantages which a given course of study has secured them, persons are apt to assume that they have justified themselves; quite forgetting that the adequateness of the advantages is the point to be judged. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library] Reference
Whereas the academic value and wonderful learning experience of a modern languages or arts degree in general can not be questioned nor do I want to devalue them, the adequateness of such degrees for the job market is highly questionable. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Literary romanticism, of which Chateaubriand and Madame de Stael were the harbingers, owed its existence to a longing for a greater fulness of thought, a greater intenseness of feeling, a greater appropriateness and adequateness of expression, and, above all, a greater truth to life and nature. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
Her productions generally were distinguished for clear and rapid thought, a logical method, natural and effective expression, a regard for the matter rather than the manner, embodying withal, that unstudied perfect adequateness of the word to the idea, which of itself constitutes one of the high graces of style. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman's Advocate Vol. III No. II February, 1870] Reference
The robust Aristotelian method, with its breadth and adequateness, shaming our sterile and linear logic by its genial radiation, conversant with series and degree, with effects and ends, skilful to discriminate power from form, essence from accident, and opening by its terminology and definition, high roads into nature, had trained a race of athletic philosophers. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
The robust Aristotelian method, with its breadth and adequateness, shaming our sterile and linear logic by its genial radiation, conversant with series and degree, with effects and ends, skilful to discriminate power from form, essence from accident, and opening, by its terminology and definition, high roads into nature, had trained a race of athletic philosophers. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Man (1850)] Reference
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