Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: adequately
IPA transcription: ['ædəkwɪtli]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: adequately
    Meaning: in an adequate manner or to an adequate degree; "he was adequately prepared"
Usage examples
  • I know not how adequately to describe it.
  • Adequately paid labor is the foundation of all prosperity."
  • Because of the lack of any purpose in the work for the one doing it, or because of the restricted character of its aim, intelligence is not adequately engaged.
  • It would be impossible to state adequately the evil results which have flowed from this dualism of mind and body, much less to exaggerate them. Some of the more striking effects, may, however, be enumerated.
  • A good many philosophers have failed adequately to satisfy this condition: they have constructed theories according to which all our thinking ought to have been true, and have then had the greatest difficulty in finding a place for falsehood.
  • The genuine anger can generally be distinguished from the imitation article by those who know him intimately by the fact that when really enraged his forehead between the eyes partakes of a curious rotary movement that cannot be adequately described in words.
  • Could she have been allowed to dilate upon her own convictions, or had she been able adequately to express her own ideas, she would have begged that there might be no sentiment, no romance, no kissing of hands, no looking into each other's faces,--no half-murmured tones of love.