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

The forceful rebuke came after administration lawyers failed to adequately answer a list of 15 questions and document requests submitted by Abrego Garcia's legal team—questions aimed at determining what, if anything, the White House has done to secure his release from Salvadoran custody. —Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025

But if ecologists aren’t involved in such efforts, who would collect the data needed to adequately assess the environmental impacts of industry? Answering questions about how scientists can best work with industry when the groups have different aims in mind isn’t always easy. —Christian Elliott, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025

Each character has their own individual battle in addition to the greater one, and the comfort of relative safety can't adequately bring them peace. —Devonne Goode, Parents, 21 Apr. 2025

Any competent, adequately instructed history student knows this. —Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1632, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for adequately

• inadequately