adequately

adverb

ad·​e·​quate·​ly ˈa-di-kwət-lē 

: to an adequate or sufficient degree or extent

There is no way to adequately prepare yourself for encountering a wild mountain gorilla.

—Sy Montgomery

The blood volume is sufficient, but it's not being adequately distributed throughout the body.

—Tom Ewing

Synonyms

• acceptably
• all right
• alright
• creditably
• decently
• fine
• good
• middlingly
• nicely
• OK
• okay
• passably
• respectably
• satisfactorily
• serviceably
• so-so
• sufficiently
• tolerably
• well

Examples of adequately in a Sentence

we weren't completely bowled over by the performance, but the band certainly played more than adequately

adequately provided with candles and freshwater in case of a power outage

Recent Examples on the Web

But there’s no way to adequately quantify a Branson experience in just a few words. —Hannah Selinger, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2024

Popular on Variety The bifurcation of sound and image seems, at times, like the only way to adequately capture the sheer breadth of a story this vast. —Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 9 May 2024

City Council President Jamie Torres, who represents the city’s District 3 where that encampment and future shelter are located, said the concerns voiced in the opposition letter are largely a reflection of the city’s failures to adequately address the homelessness crisis. —Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, 7 May 2024

On the other hand, a unit too small won’t adequately cool your home on the hottest days. —Sara Kendall, Miami Herald, 7 May 2024

Meanwhile, 32% said that their supply chain teams have yet to rebound to pre-pandemic staffing levels, underscoring the persistent battle to adequately equip health care systems for the challenges ahead. —Bj Schaknowski, Fortune, 6 May 2024

The chipping away of material could mean the crew and Orion spacecraft aren’t adequately protected from this heat. —Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2024

The organizational assessment found the department needs an additional 500 officers to adequately cover the 27,000 square miles of the Navajo Nation, totaling 700 officers to cover the span of the Navajo Nation. —Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 2 May 2024

But her most devoted and persistent advocates were Black women, many of them arguing online that the government’s response felt muted, a continuation of the culture of neglect that fails to adequately protect them and gender-nonconforming people. —J Wortham January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 2 May 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1632, in the meaning defined above