adequate
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Definitions & Usage
(obsolete) To equal.
Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.
A sufficient amount of; enough.
(obsolete) To equalize; to make adequate.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“Proportion therefore your Clothes to your bodies, and let them be proper for your persons. […] Agreeableness […] ought to be exact, and adequate both to age, person and condition, avoiding extremities on both sides, being neither too much out, nor in the fashions.”
— 1673, Hannah Woolley, “Of Habit, and the neatness and property thereof”, in The Gentlewomans Companion, London: Dorman Newman, page 61:
“Her legal allowance was not adequate to her fortune, nor sufficient for her comfortable maintenance […]”
— 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter 31, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
“All day as I drove upon my round I turned over the case in my mind, and found no explanation which appeared to me to be adequate.”
— 1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Empty House”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes: