Inadequate is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INADEQUATE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an incompetent person
ADJECTIVE:
• not adequate
• lacking the quality or quantity required; insufficient for a purpose
• (of a person) unable to deal with a situation or with life
• Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions, representations, etc.
• lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task
• not sufficient to meet a need
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• not adequat; insufficient; not capable

Words related to INADEQUATE

inadequacies24 inadequacy25 inadequately25 inadequates21

Words that contain INADEQUATE

inadequates21 inadequately25 inadequateness24 inadequatenesse25 inadequatenesses26

How to use INADEQUATE in a sentence

• Even in those early days of the war, the railway system of the South was worn out and inadequate.
• Persons who have no country-houses, and whose fortunes are inadequate to a London expenditure, find here, I suppose, a sort of town and country life in one.
• The cases could be sent to Calais, it was true, but there the accommodation was so far totally inadequate, and skilled surgical assistance was not to be obtained.
• The cavalcade drove on during the night, finding, however, the hasty preparations which had been made inadequate for the occasion.
• We propose to show under this head, that the clothing of the slaves by day, and their covering by night, are inadequate, either for comfort or decency.
• She was dressed in a manner which Rita dreamily thought would have been inadequate in England, or even in Cuba, but which was appropriate in the Great Sahara.
• Her railways were neglected and the whole transportation system, entirely inadequate even for peace needs, had, under the strain of the war, fallen into chaos.
• But, worst of all, he permitted bad and inadequate habits to be developed at the most critical and plastic period of life.
• We are slowly coming to appreciate how much time is wasted in drill processes by inadequate methods.
• For once, the whites, moved by a sense of tardy and inadequate justice, withheld their hands.
• Old political theories and practices were totally inadequate to control the new situation or to meet the complex problems that grew out of it.
• That it has always been so is sufficiently attested by the universally inadequate wage rate.
• A good bridge, but one inadequate for the strain of daily traffic.
• They sat close together, saying little, for mere words are sometimes inadequate.
• Bed bugs abound in the summer, and in the winter the lodger is nearly frozen, the covering, when furnished, being utterly inadequate to the task of keeping out the cold.
• Reasoning from these inadequate premises, it seemed to me that Hegel had invented evolution before Mr.
• But, indeed, though a fit, it is an inadequate emblem.
• But this combined force was inadequate to the emergency.
• There was probably never a time when so much attention was paid to the interpretation of music, yet the results are often unsatisfactory because of inadequate technique.
• Personification of Deity infinitely inadequate, 672-m.
• To say that he did excellently well, admirably well, would be inadequate and halting praise.
• Above and beyond the inadequate solutions which Hebraism and Hellenism here attempt, extends the immense and august problem itself, and the human spirit which gave birth to it.
• I could obtain nothing from my family, nor from my home, beyond my inadequate allowance.
• He knew, too, how inadequate was the equipment of the army.
• The odds were all against Cooper from the start and, in ways that Steele had not specified, the material equipment proved itself inadequate indeed.
• The knowledge that a certain principle is inadequate comes to consciousness through the attempt to classify some particular experience under it.
• The address was quite inadequate and the unfortunate visitor had a rather cool reception.
• Sometimes political systems, sometimes religious zeal, have excluded it from their programme, thereby making their programme unjust and inadequate.
• Commission after Commission reported the main facts correctly, if the remedies they proposed were inadequate.
• He has labored much, and for very inadequate compensation.

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