Entry Word: adequate

Function: adjective

Meaning: of a level of quality that meets one's needs or standards <this old computer is probably adequate if you just want to type a book report>

Synonyms acceptable, all right, decent, fine, OK (or okay), passable, respectable, satisfactory, tolerable

Related Words agreeable, bearable, endurable, sufferable; average, fair, mediocre, middling, minimal, unexceptional; appropriate, correct, due, fitting, good, meet, proper, right, seemly, suitable, useful, worthy; gratifying, satisfying

Near Antonyms disreputable, improper, indecent, objectionable, unfit, unsuitable, unworthy, useless; bad, defective, faulty, imperfect, incomplete, lamentable, pitiful; dissatisfying, unsatisfying; insufficient, meager, mean, miserly, niggardly, poor, scanty, shabby, short, skimpy, spare, stingy; insufferable, intolerable, unbearable, unendurable; exceptional, exquisite, extreme, first-class, matchless, maximized, maximum, optimal, optimum, peerless, preeminent, superior, supreme, unmatched, unparalleled, unsurpassed

Antonyms deficient, inadequate, lacking, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, wanting