What are the opposite words for inadequate?
When something is deemed inadequate, it is clearly not enough or insufficient. However, there are a variety of antonyms for inadequate that represent the different levels of sufficiency. For instance, abundant denotes a plentiful or ample supply of something, while satisfactory implies that a need or expectation has been met. The word satisfactory also has a synonym, acceptable, which implies that something meets basic requirements. Competent is another antonym of inadequate, which means the ability to properly handle a task. Lastly, proficient denotes a level of mastery or expertise that is far beyond adequacy. Therefore, recognizing and using antonyms can help provide a means of communicating one's exact meaning.
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- all right
- due
- sufficient
- acceptable
- good
- qualified
- respectable
- suitable
- meet
- round
- reliable
- solid
- effective
- bearable
- commensurate
- competent
- eatable
- endurable
- fair
- fit
- full
- livable
- able
- adequate
- capable
- considerable
- decent
- efficient
- enough
- fitting
- passable
- plenty
- satisfactory
- sizable
- tolerable
- trustworthy
- capable of performing; having an innate capacity
- satisfactory, agreeable
- all
- enough, able
- thorough/thoroughgoing
- able to perform
- adequate, corresponding
- adapted
- cut out for
- sufficient, tolerable
- appropriate, proper
- able to be consumed
- able to be eaten
- productive, persuasive
- adept, effective
- mediocre, satisfactory
- suitable, appropriate
- brimming, filled
- pleasant, fine
- defective, insufficient, incompetent
- adequate, acceptable
- acceptable, admissible
- able, skillful
- good, honest
- ball-shaped; semicircular area
- acceptable, sufficient
- considerable, large
- dependable, reliable
- enough, adequate
- appropriate, acceptable
- acceptable, good enough
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
- all right
- due
- sufficient
-
acceptable
- copacetic,
- hep,
- hunky-dory,
- Hepper,
- peachy keen,
- a ok,
- cooking with gas,
- de lightful,
- de-lightful,
- hunky dory,
- in swim,
- more a ok,
- more a-ok,
- more aok,
- more copacetic,
- more hunky dory,
- more hunkydory,
- most a ok,
- most a-ok,
- most aok,
- most hunky dory,
- most hunky-dory,
- most hunkydory,
- un exceptional,
- un-exceptional,
- un-objectionable,
- up code,
- up to code,
- up to snuff.
-
good
- De Luxe,
- fruitful,
- healthy,
- incorrupt,
- rad,
- recherche,
- tip-top,
- uncontaminated,
- well-disposed,
- first class,
- Supereminent,
- Superexcellent,
- firstrate,
- firstclass,
- Undecayed,
- fit to eat,
- bullier,
- bulliest,
- de-luxe,
- ex tensive,
- first rate,
- fit eat,
- in corrupt,
- in culpable,
- in nocent,
- in-corrupt,
- in-culpable,
- in-nocent,
- lily white,
- lilywhite,
- more approving,
- more commending,
- more favoring,
- more incorrupt,
- more paying,
- more recherche,
- more super eminent,
- more super excellent,
- more super-eminent,
- more supereminent,
- more tip top,
- more tip-top,
- more toward,
- more uncontaminated,
- more undecayed,
- more well disposed,
- more well-disposed,
- more welldisposed,
- most approving,
- most commending,
- most favoring,
- most incorrupt,
- most paying,
- most recherche,
- most super eminent,
- most super excellent,
- most super-eminent,
- most super-excellent,
- most supereminent,
- most tip top,
- most tip-top,
- most toward,
- most uncontaminated,
- most undecayed,
- most well disposed,
- most well-disposed,
- most welldisposed,
- radder,
- raddest,
- re gular,
- re-gular,
- super eminent,
- super excellent,
- super-eminent,
- super-excellent,
- tip top,
- un contaminated,
- un damaged,
- un decayed,
- un hurt,
- un impaired,
- un spoiled,
- un tainted,
- un-blemished,
- un-contaminated,
- un-corrupted,
- un-damaged,
- un-decayed,
- un-hurt,
- un-impaired,
- un-spoiled,
- un-tainted,
- well disposed,
- well mannered,
- wellbehaved,
- welldisposed,
- wellfounded.
- qualified
- respectable
- suitable
- meet
-
round
- bulbous,
- discoid,
- globose,
- orbicular,
- spheroid,
- unmodified,
- Domical,
- Orbed,
- disk-shaped,
- disk shaped,
- diskshaped,
- egg shaped,
- more curled,
- more discoid,
- more disk shaped,
- more disk-shaped,
- more diskshaped,
- more domical,
- more globose,
- more orbed,
- more orbicular,
- more orbiculate,
- more ringed,
- more unbroken,
- more unmodified,
- most curled,
- most discoid,
- most disk shaped,
- most disk-shaped,
- most diskshaped,
- most domical,
- most globose,
- most orbed,
- most orbicular,
- most orbiculate,
- most ringed,
- most spheroid,
- most unbroken,
- most unmodified,
- out spoken,
- out-spoken,
- re sounding,
- re-sounding,
- roly poly,
- rolypoly,
- un broken,
- un divided,
- un modified,
- un-broken,
- un-divided.
-
reliable
- high-principled,
- truehearted,
- True-hearted,
- de finite,
- de voted,
- de-finite,
- de-voted,
- highprincipled,
- more high principled,
- more high-principled,
- more true hearted,
- more true-hearted,
- most high-principled,
- most highprincipled,
- most true hearted,
- most true-hearted,
- most truehearted,
- re liabler,
- re liablest,
- re-liable,
- re-liabler,
- re-liablest,
- true hearted,
- trueblue,
- un equivocal,
- un failing,
- un-equivocal,
- un-failing.
- solid
- effective
- bearable
- commensurate
-
competent
- know the score,
- pertinent,
- all around,
- being a pistol,
- being pistol,
- fooler,
- foolest,
- know answers,
- know business,
- know ins and outs,
- know ins outs,
- know one business,
- know one stuff,
- know one's business,
- know one's stuff,
- know ones business,
- know ones stuff,
- know ropes,
- know score,
- know stuff,
- know the answers,
- more efficient,
- most dynamite,
- most efficient,
- no slouch,
- paid dues,
- paid one dues,
- paid one's dues,
- paid ones dues,
- therer,
- up snuff.
- eatable
- endurable
- fair
-
fit
- good enough,
- hale,
- most desirable,
- rightful,
- robust,
- toned,
- Muscled,
- in good condition,
- be fitting,
- fit as a fiddle,
- able bodied,
- ablebodied,
- be-fitting,
- de serving,
- de-serving,
- fit as fiddle,
- more correspondent,
- more muscled,
- more toned,
- more well suited,
- more well-suited,
- more wellsuited,
- most correspondent,
- most muscled,
- most toned,
- most well suited,
- most well-suited,
- most wellsuited,
- pre pared,
- pre-pared,
- well suited,
- well-suited,
- wellsuited,
- wrapped tight.
-
full
- plethoric,
- weighted,
- chockfull,
- running over,
- chock full,
- in tact,
- in-tact,
- jammed full,
- more crammed,
- more glutted,
- more gorged,
- more jam packed,
- more jam-packed,
- more plethoric,
- more sated,
- more satiated,
- more stocked,
- more suffused,
- more surfeited,
- more weighted,
- most crammed,
- most glutted,
- most gorged,
- most imbued,
- most jam packed,
- most jam-packed,
- most plethoric,
- most sated,
- most stocked,
- most suffused,
- most surfeited,
- over flowing,
- over-flowing,
- packed like sardines,
- pro fuse,
- pro-fuse.
- livable
- able
- adequate
-
capable
- fireball,
- oldtimer,
- there,
- knowing the score,
- has what it takes,
- has what takes,
- having goods,
- having know how,
- having know-how,
- having knowhow,
- having right stuff,
- having the goods,
- having the right stuff,
- knowing score,
- like a one man band,
- like a one-man band,
- like a oneman band,
- like a pistol,
- like one man band,
- like one-man band,
- like oneman band,
- like pistol,
- more dynamite,
- more fireball,
- more old timer,
- more old-timer,
- more oldtimer,
- more up,
- most fireball,
- most old timer,
- most old-timer,
- most oldtimer,
- most up,
- old timer,
- therest,
- up it,
- up speed,
- up to it,
- up to speed.
-
considerable
- tidy.
- decent
- efficient
- enough
-
fitting
- meet.
- passable
- plenty
- satisfactory
- sizable
- tolerable
- trustworthy
-
capable of performing; having an innate capacity
- able.
- satisfactory, agreeable
- all
- enough, able
-
thorough/thoroughgoing
- all the way,
- all-embracing,
- in depth,
- Clocklike,
- INDEPTH,
- whole-hog,
- all embracing,
- all inclusive,
- all out,
- all way,
- allembracing,
- allinclusive,
- allout,
- blow by blow,
- de tailed,
- de-tailed,
- ex act,
- ex-act,
- from a z,
- from to z,
- from z,
- fulldress,
- in tensive,
- in-tensive,
- more all embracing,
- more all-embracing,
- more particularized,
- more slam bang,
- more slam-bang,
- more slambang,
- more thorough,
- more thoroughgoing,
- more whole hog,
- more wholehog,
- most all embracing,
- most all-embracing,
- most allembracing,
- most particularized,
- most slam bang,
- most slam-bang,
- most slambang,
- most thorough,
- most whole hog,
- most whole-hog,
- most wholehog,
- out and out,
- out right,
- out righter,
- out rightest,
- out-right,
- out-righter,
- slam bang,
- soup nuts,
- soup to nuts,
- straight out,
- straightout,
- un mitigated,
- un qualified,
- un-mitigated,
- un-qualified,
- wholehog.
- able to perform
- adequate, corresponding
- adapted
- cut out for
- sufficient, tolerable
-
appropriate, proper
- due.
- able to be consumed
- able to be eaten
- productive, persuasive
- adept, effective
-
mediocre, satisfactory
- fair.
-
suitable, appropriate
- fit.
-
brimming, filled
- full.
-
pleasant, fine
- good.
- defective, insufficient, incompetent
- adequate, acceptable
- acceptable, admissible
- able, skillful
- good, honest
- ball-shaped; semicircular area
- acceptable, sufficient
- considerable, large
- dependable, reliable
- enough, adequate
- appropriate, acceptable
- acceptable, good enough
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
putting gear
- Antonyms:
- close, disenchant, disgust.
