Synonyms for Adequate:

• adj.

  •able (adjective)
  • powerful,
  • effortless,
  • smart,
  • end owed,
  • more intelligent,
  • end-owed.
  •acceptable (adjective)
  • allowable,
  • hunky-dory,
  • Hepper,
  • appropriate,
  • unobjectionable,
  • up to code,
  • up to snuff,
  • peachy keen,
  • favorable,
  • cooking with gas,
  • hep,
  • admissible,
  • hunky dory,
  • copacetic,
  • suitable,
  • permissible.
  •all (adjective)
  • equal,
  • adequate.
  •all right (adjective)
  • more okey dokey,
  • most okey-dokey,
  • most okeydokey,
  • more okey-dokey,
  • most okey dokey,
  • more okeydokey,
  • okeydokey,
  • okey dokey,
  • more fitting.
  •capable (adjective)
  • has what takes,
  • having know how,
  • most old-timer,
  • old timer,
  • more suited,
  • like one man band,
  • having right stuff,
  • more oldtimer,
  • therest,
  • most old timer,
  • up speed,
  • like one-man band,
  • most dynamite,
  • like oneman band,
  • more fireball,
  • veteran,
  • having knowhow,
  • more talented,
  • like a one man band,
  • most capable,
  • up it,
  • more dynamite,
  • more up,
  • like a oneman band,
  • like pistol,
  • most up,
  • most oldtimer,
  • most fireball,
  • more old-timer,
  • having goods,
  • therer,
  • knowing score,
  • more old timer.
  •comfortable (adjective)
  • healthy,
  • homey,
  • at rest,
  • hale,
  • made well,
  • cared for,
  • snug as a bug in a rug,
  • softer,
  • most pleased,
  • Soothed,
  • loose-fitting,
  • snug as bug in rug,
  • heartiest.
  •competent (adjective)
  • being pistol,
  • know business,
  • know ones business,
  • know ins outs,
  • paid one dues,
  • know ones stuff,
  • know answers,
  • know ropes,
  • pertinent,
  • no slouch,
  • know score,
  • paid dues,
  • know one business,
  • more skilled,
  • paid ones dues,
  • know one stuff,
  • foolest.
  •cut out for (adjective)
  • more designed,
  • de-signed,
  • most designed,
  • de signed.
  •decent (adjective)
  • de cent,
  • un-impeachable,
  • most sufficing,
  • more sufficing,
  • un impeachable,
  • de-cent,
  • middling.
  •effective (adjective)
  • potent,
  • having lead in pencil,
  • playing hardball,
  • most telling,
  • powerhouse,
  • virtuous,
  • forcible.
  •effectual (adjective)
  • licit,
  • more achieving,
  • most fulfilling,
  • more effecting,
  • most effecting,
  • more accomplishing,
  • more fulfilling,
  • most achieving,
  • most accomplishing,
  • de terminative,
  • de-terminative.
  •efficacious (adjective)
  • puissant.
  •efficient (adjective)
  • more efficient,
  • most efficient,
  • wellorganized,
  • most valuable,
  • well organized,
  • more wellorganized,
  • most well organized,
  • most wellorganized,
  • most well-organized,
  • more well organized,
  • more well-organized.
  •enough (adjective)
  • co pious,
  • most bellyful,
  • sick tired of,
  • co-pious,
  • more bellyful,
  • enough already,
  • un-limited,
  • un limited,
  • replete.
  •enough, able (adjective)
  • unexceptional,
  • requisite,
  • Sufficing,
  • commensurate.
  •fair (adjective)
  • in different,
  • most fairish,
  • inter-mediate,
  • inter mediate,
  • more fairish,
  • up standard,
  • in-different,
  • FAIRER.
  •fair to middling (adjective)
  • can't complain.
  •fit (adjective)
  • rightful,
  • more correspondent,
  • pre-pared,
  • most well suited,
  • more wellsuited,
  • de serving,
  • well suited,
  • more well-suited,
  • most well-suited,
  • most correspondent,
  • wellsuited,
  • most desirable,
  • be-fitting,
  • be-coming,
  • most wellsuited,
  • de-serving,
  • more well suited,
  • pre pared.
  •full (adjective)
  • ex tensive,
  • most suffused,
  • more stocked,
  • most imbued,
  • choater,
  • most jam-packed,
  • more sated,
  • most plethoric,
  • more surfeited,
  • choatest,
  • most weighted,
  • more satiated,
  • more particularized,
  • more imbued,
  • un-abridged,
  • most clocklike,
  • over-flowing,
  • in tact,
  • most particularized,
  • de-tailed,
  • most stocked,
  • allinclusive,
  • more plethoric,
  • un abridged,
  • voluminous,
  • most jam packed,
  • more jam-packed,
  • all inclusive,
  • more jam packed,
  • over flowing,
  • sated,
  • most surfeited,
  • pro fuse,
  • most gorged,
  • most sated,
  • most crammed,
  • more suffused,
  • more glutted,
  • chock full,
  • more gorged,
  • more clocklike,
  • in-tact,
  • de tailed,
  • more weighted,
  • more crammed,
  • most satiated,
  • more brimful,
  • pro-fuse,
  • chockfull,
  • satiated,
  • most glutted.
  •good (adjective)
  • most paying,
  • more paying.
  •homey (adjective)
  • folksy.
  •influential (adjective)
  • operative.
  •much (adjective)
  • scads,
  • loadser,
  • more mega,
  • loadsest,
  • mucho,
  • more mucho,
  • heapsest,
  • most everywhere,
  • many,
  • most mega,
  • most lotsa,
  • most mucho,
  • more everywhere,
  • scadsest,
  • scadser,
  • more lotsa,
  • heapser.
  •okay (adjective)
  • okker,
  • okkest,
  • in order,
  • most surely,
  • more surely.
  •qualified (adjective)
  • vet,
  • disciplined,
  • warhorse,
  • VETER,
  • war-horse,
  • war horse.
  •right (adjective)
  • more condign,
  • most condign,
  • right,
  • de-served,
  • de served.
  •satisfactory (adjective)
  • most appeasing,
  • more assuaging,
  • more appeasing,
  • more assuasive,
  • more delighting,
  • most delighting,
  • most assuasive,
  • de lighting,
  • de-lighting,
  • most assuaging.
  •so-so (adjective)
  • un distinguished,
  • so so,
  • un-distinguished,
  • SOSO.
  •sufficient (adjective)
  • ample,
  • equal to the need,
  • plentiful,
  • plenteous,
  • prosperous,
  • study atsufficient,
  • bountiful,
  • abundant.
  •tolerable (adjective)
  • most sustainable,
  • be-arable,
  • be arable,
  • more sustainable,
  • more unexceptionable,
  • un-exceptionable,
  • un exceptionable,
  • sustainable,
  • unexceptionable,
  • most unexceptionable.
  •unobjectionable (adjective)
  • un objectionable,
  • un-objectionable.

• n.

  •
  • excess.
  •
  • O.K.,
  • respectable.
  •adequate (noun)
  • up to,
  • sufficient,
  • adequate to.
  •due (noun)
  • due.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • presentable,
  • mediocrity,
  • goodish,
  • nicely,
  • palatable,
  • working,
  • tolerably,
  • adequacy,
  • agreeable,
  • reasonable.
  •
  • pleasant,
  • sorry,
  • marginal,
  • modest,
  • medium.
  •
  • tidy,
  • average,
  • all-right.
  •
  • common.
  •
  • moderate.
  •genuine
  • valid.

Paraphrases for Adequate:

• Equivalence

  • Preposition or subordinating conjunction
    sufficient.
  • Adjective
    sufficient.
  • Proper noun, singular
    sufficient.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    sufficient.
  • Adverb
    sufficient.
  • Verb, past tense
    sufficient.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    inadequate.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    inadequate.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    inappropriate, fullest, well-suited, corresponding, thorough, sensible, qualified, plentiful, valid, unsatisfactory, meaningful, proportional, desirable, advisable, adjusted, unsuitable, duly, conducive, well-designed, perfect, enough, well-established.
  • Proper noun, singular
    sets, Bis, Forms, enough.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Institutes, data, enough.
  • Adverb
    enough.
  • Verb, past tense
    Sufficed.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    according.
  • Verb, base form
    suffice.

• Other Related

  • Coordinating conjunction
    appropriate, sufficient.
  • Determiner
    appropriate, sufficient.
  • Preposition or subordinating conjunction
    appropriate.
  • Adjective
    appropriate, decent, reasonable, ample, commensurate, fitting, accurate, timely, proportionate, expedient, satisfying, abundant, opportune, substantial, favorable, propitious, apt, competent, befitting, insufficient, ideal.
  • Proper noun, singular
    appropriate, insufficient.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    appropriate, proportionate, appropriateness.
  • Verb, past tense
    appropriate.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    appropriate, sufficient.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    sufficient.
  • Verb, base form
    appropriate, sufficient, enough.

Antonyms for Adequate:

• adj.

  • all
    inadequate.
  • enough, able
    incapable, intolerable, unequal, incompetent, unacceptable, unsuitable, useless, unfit, inferior, unqualified, insufficient, inappropriate, unsatisfactory, inept, unable, poor.
  • Other antonyms:
    top, boss, pitiful, dandy, heavenly, extreme, disqualified, exquisite, A1, swell, incomplete, exceptional, disagreeable, superlative, maximized, maximum, miserable, disreputable, noble, classic, preeminent, imperfect, atrocious, shabby, cheap, wonderful, tip-top, fabulous, sensational, superb, shoddy, indecent, peerless, high-grade, grand, first class, unsurpassed, prime, supreme, great, terrific, banner, matchless, Dissatisfying, sterling, jim-dandy, nifty, special, defective, par excellence, mean, objectionable, faulty, stellar, optimum, lamentable, groovy, fancy, keen, premium, divine, supernal, miserly, marvelous, first-rate, splendid, optimal, capital, vile, neat, unworthy, unmatched, unparalleled, worthless, crackerjack, top-notch, superior.

Homophones for Adequate:

• attached, attested, atheist, attest, adjusted, addicted, audio cd, adjust, audacity, autodidact, addict, adequate to, adduct, autacoid, attach to, audiocassette, adust, ada-scid, autocoid.