How do you use the word "adequate" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "adequate" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "adequate": That threw adequate light on his feelings toward her. The pay is not adequate for a family of six.

Adequate Meaning

/ˈæd.ə.kwɪt/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjEqual to or fulfilling some requirement.

detA sufficient amount of; enough.

Sentence Examples

That threw adequate light on his feelings toward her.

The pay is not adequate for a family of six.

They'll need an adequate supply of hot water.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

enough equal decent

Antonyms:

inadequate insufficient

CEFR Practice Quiz

Make sure you have ____ supplies to last the entire hiking trip.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The supply of food was ____ to feed the entire village for a month.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Italic *aikʷos Latin aiquos Latin aequus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin aequō Latin adaequō Latin adaequātuslbor. English adequate 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.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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:

"John was a perfectly adequate academic. A perfectly adequate academic but not a notable teacher." — 2009, J. M. Coetzee, Summertime, New York: Viking, page 212:

"Let me giue yet one instance more, of a truly intellectuall obiect, exactly adequated and proportioned vnto the intellectuall appetite." — 1622, Martin Fotherby, Atheomastix; clearing foure truthes, against atheists and infidels, London, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 208:

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