adequate
Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.
Adjective 1 meaning
Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.
“powers adequate to a great work”
Determiner 1 meaning
A sufficient amount of; enough.
“We have adequate money for the journey.”
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin adaequātus, perfect passive participle of adaequō (“to make equal to”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from ad (“to, towards, at”) + aequō (“to make equal, equalize”), from aequus (“equal”). Cognate with French adéquat.
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ADEQUATE at a glance
ADEQUATE has 8 letters and scores 18 points in Scrabble (A 1 + D 2 + E 1 + Q 10 + U 1 + A 1 + T 1 + E 1) and 19 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,437 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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