What is another word for inadequate?
892 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ɪnˈadɪkwət], [ ɪnˈadɪkwət], [ ɪ_n_ˈa_d_ɪ_k_w_ə_t]
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Similar words for inadequate:
- all (adjective)
- bad (adjective)
- beggarly (adjective)
- cowardly (adjective)
- defective (adjective)
- defective, insufficient, incompetent (adjective)
- deficient (adjective)
- disappointing (adjective)
- dissatisfactory (adjective)
- exiguous (adjective)
- failing (adjective)
- faulty (adjective)
- feeble (adjective)
- flimsy (adjective)
- imperfect (adjective)
- impotent (adjective)
- incapable (adjective)
- incommensurate (adjective)
- incompetent (adjective)
- incomplete (adjective)
- inconsequential (adjective)
- inconsequential/inconsiderable (adjective)
- ineffective (adjective)
- ineffective/ineffectual (adjective)
- ineffectual (adjective)
- inefficacious (adjective)
- insufficient (adjective)
- lacking (adjective)
- lame (adjective)
- lean (adjective)
- light (adjective)
- low (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- pale (adjective)
- pathetic (adjective)
- pitiful (adjective)
- rotten (adjective)
- ruthful (adjective)
- second-rate (adjective)
- short (adjective)
- sketchy (adjective)
- small (adjective)
- sorry (adjective)
- sparse (adjective)
- spineless (adjective)
- substandard (adjective)
- thin (adjective)
- unable (adjective)
- unacceptable (adjective)
- unfit (adjective)
- unprofessional (adjective)
- unqualified (adjective)
- unskilled (adjective)
- unsuitable (adjective)
- untrained (adjective)
- useless (adjective)
- weak (adjective)
- woeful (adjective)
- inadequate (noun)
- incompetent (noun)
- inferior (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- destitute
- expendable
- inconsiderable
- scarce
Synonyms for Inadequate:
adj.
• all (adjective) • bad (adjective)- junky,
- cruddy,
- unsound,
- poor,
- invalid,
- unpleasant,
- punk,
- godawful,
- poorer,
- ill-suited,
- baneful,
- inadvisable,
- most inferior,
- arrant,
- wretched,
- detrimental,
- the pits,
- bottom out,
- unsatisfactory,
- irremediable,
- grody,
- unfavorable,
- not good,
- wrong,
- displeasing,
- inferior,
- sad,
- vile,
- black.
- on the bum,
- un sounder,
- un soundest,
- most blemished,
- sub-normal,
- un finished,
- sickest,
- wanting,
- un-sound,
- un-healthier,
- out order,
- more seconds,
- un healthiest,
- un healthier,
- more subnormal,
- more blemished,
- more flawed,
- un-soundest,
- most flawed,
- most seconds,
- most subnormal,
- un healthy,
- un-sounder,
- sub normal,
- on bum,
- un-healthy,
- subnormal,
- un-healthiest,
- un sound,
- un-finished.
- glitch,
- spare,
- impotent,
- lemon,
- incomplete,
- junk,
- miserly,
- found wanting,
- stunted,
- short,
- scanty,
- inappreciable,
- deficient,
- unproductive,
- minus,
- not enough,
- bush-league,
- scarce,
- inconsiderable,
- depleted,
- dry,
- insubstantial,
- skimpy,
- inapt,
- niggardly,
- imperfect,
- sterile,
- Stinted,
- parsimonious,
- meager,
- incapable,
- barren,
- lousy,
- too little.
- tiny.
- more botched,
- in exact,
- most lemon,
- more malfunctioning,
- in-accurate,
- most botched,
- more marred,
- more imprecise,
- un reliable,
- most warped,
- malformed,
- in accurate,
- un retentive,
- inexact,
- most marred,
- de based,
- un-retentive,
- un-reliable,
- most imprecise,
- in-valid,
- more lemon,
- more warped,
- in-exact,
- most unretentive,
- de-based,
- in valid,
- more unretentive,
- most malfunctioning,
- warped.
- more chiffon,
- trans-parent,
- shallower,
- most controvertible,
- un-believable,
- shallow,
- trifling,
- more cut rate,
- most chiffon,
- more cutrate,
- more ungrounded,
- rickety,
- un substantial,
- cutrate,
- more cut-rate,
- more papery,
- un-substantial,
- most unpersuasive,
- most cut-rate,
- un believable,
- more unpersuasive,
- illogical,
- most cutrate,
- trivial,
- un-grounded,
- more rinkydink,
- house cards,
- most ungrounded,
- un-persuasive,
- in-conceivable,
- gossamer,
- most rinkydink,
- un grounded,
- in credible,
- un persuasive,
- most cut rate,
- trans parent,
- un reasonable,
- more controvertible,
- un-reasonable,
- most papery,
- in-credible,
- in conceivable.
- in-experienced,
- in capable,
- un-equipped,
- in proficient,
- in-capable,
- in expert,
- un skillful,
- not to,
- un cool,
- more inproficient,
- more butterfingers,
- un-cool,
- most unequipped,
- un suited,
- un-suited,
- most inproficient,
- most uncool,
- in-proficient,
- in-expert,
- more unequipped,
- more uncool,
- un-skillful,
- un equipped,
- in eligible,
- in experienced,
- dis qualified,
- in-eligible,
- dis-qualified,
- more disqualified,
- most butterfingers,
- most disqualified,
- losing.
- in-commensurate,
- un-fairer,
- most incommensurable,
- un fairest,
- more incommensurable,
- un fair,
- incommensurable,
- un-equal,
- in commensurate,
- un-fair,
- in-commensurable,
- un equal,
- in commensurable,
- un-fairest,
- un fairer.
- most unadapted,
- more amateur,
- un-trained,
- more unproficient,
- most amateur,
- more unfitted,
- un-handy,
- un-fitted,
- un-handier,
- un fitted,
- out lunch,
- un-proficient,
- un-adapted,
- un-initiated,
- unhandiest,
- un proficient,
- un trained,
- most unproficient,
- most unfitted,
- un handiest,
- un handier,
- unhandier,
- un-handiest,
- more floundering,
- more unadapted,
- in competent,
- most floundering,
- in-competent,
- un adapted,
- un handy,
- un initiated,
- bushleague.
- unconsummated,
- half done,
- Unaccomplished,
- half-done,
- Unexecuted,
- under construction,
- fragmentary,
- Parter.
- more entry level,
- most shoestring,
- entrylevel,
- most entry level,
- un considered,
- runtest,
- in considerable,
- un-important,
- more shoestring,
- more entry-level,
- in appreciable,
- un important,
- in significant,
- in-considerable,
- in-appreciable,
- in-consequent,
- twobit,
- most entry-level,
- in consequent,
- in-significant,
- more entrylevel,
- most entrylevel,
- un-considered,
- runter.
- more slack-spined,
- ineffective,
- more slack spined,
- most slack spined,
- more emasculate,
- slack-spined,
- most slack-spined,
- slackspined,
- most slackspined,
- in-effective,
- more slackspined,
- most emasculate,
- un-available,
- slack spined,
- in effective,
- un available.
- in operative,
- more ineffective,
- invertebrate,
- in-vertebrate,
- most defeasible,
- more neutralized,
- anti climactic,
- null void,
- in-operative,
- in vertebrate,
- un profitable,
- most invertebrate,
- anti-climactic,
- de-feasible,
- un-profitable,
- de feasible,
- most anticlimactic,
- more anticlimactic,
- null and void,
- in nocuous,
- in-nocuous,
- more defeasible,
- most neutralized,
- more invertebrate.
- coming up short,
- Sans,
- cant cut it,
- sansest,
- not making it,
- coming short,
- can't cut it,
- most needing,
- deprived of,
- not hacking it,
- most without,
- sanser,
- more needing,
- more without.
- in-fertile,
- stilt,
- more sylphlike,
- stiltest,
- more shadow,
- most beanpole,
- in fertile,
- scraggier,
- gangling,
- more beanpole,
- stickest,
- stilter,
- most shadow,
- most sylphlike.
- pathetic,
- exiguous,
- small time,
- unretentive,
- dissatisfactory,
- scrimpy,
- imprecise,
- inapposite,
- few and far between,
- unprofessional,
- shoestring,
- feeble,
- Commiserable,
- unproficient,
- incommensurate,
- Controvertible,
- defeasible,
- big zero,
- sylphlike,
- shy,
- sorry,
- out of shape,
- pale,
- woeful,
- doughy,
- disappointing,
- cut-rate,
- papery,
- sparse,
- unfit,
- doughier,
- unfitting,
- chiffon,
- no way,
- butterfingered,
- cut rate,
- no go,
- flimsy,
- whitish,
- no biggie,
- incompetent,
- ill-adapted,
- not up to,
- amoebalike,
- unable,
- unqualified,
- nugatory,
- Out of keeping,
- defective,
- untalented,
- lacking,
- rotten,
- ungrounded,
- out of place,
- busher,
- Butter-fingered,
- sketchy,
- not able,
- no fat,
- inconsequential,
- unpersuasive,
- unadapted,
- rinkydink,
- malfunctioning,
- Unhandy,
- low,
- not have it,
- down and out,
- Waterish,
- pitiful,
- flawed,
- weak,
- entry-level,
- thin,
- anguished,
- unpleasing,
- washed out,
- inefficacious,
- scraggiest,
- bad,
- yellow-bellied,
- sticker,
- not effective,
- second class,
- small,
- light,
- scraggy,
- second-best,
- faint-hearted,
- unequipped,
- inproficient,
- house of cards,
- not equal to,
- unpromising,
- nonexpert,
- not cut out for,
- uncool,
- ill-equipped,
- can't hack it,
- laid low,
- anticlimactic,
- Pithless,
- faulty,
- out of character,
- sidelined,
- can't make the grade,
- not fit,
- failing,
- unfitted.
- doughiest,
- more waxlike,
- waxlike,
- washedout,
- most whitish,
- pasty,
- most bleached,
- most waxlike,
- more whitish,
- more bleached,
- washed-out.
- punker,
- un luckiest,
- un luckier,
- un pleasant,
- most bruised,
- un-pleasant,
- bummest,
- punkest,
- more bruised,
- un-happy,
- un happier,
- un happy,
- un-lucky,
- un lucky,
- dis-agreeable,
- un fortunate,
- dis eased,
- dis-eased,
- dis agreeable,
- un happiest,
- un-luckier,
- un-fortunate.
- secondbest,
- second rate,
- more second-best,
- second-class,
- most second-best,
- secondclass,
- most secondrate,
- secondrate,
- most second best,
- more secondbest,
- most secondbest,
- more second best.
- mini,
- minor-league,
- runty,
- under-sized,
- pocket-sized,
- shrimp,
- bitty,
- small-scale,
- one-horse,
- pint-sized,
- Toyer,
- small-fry,
- shrimper,
- small fry.
- scrimpier,
- un commoner,
- un common,
- un-commoner,
- un commonest,
- scrimpiest,
- most dispersed,
- un-common,
- more dispersed,
- few far between.
- more weak-kneed,
- lily livered,
- weakwilled,
- more faint-hearted,
- more pithless,
- more faint hearted,
- weak kneed,
- most yellow-bellied,
- most yellowbellied,
- most amoebalike,
- more yellow-bellied,
- weakkneed,
- most yellow bellied,
- weak willed,
- yellowbellied,
- most weak-kneed,
- most weakkneed,
- more yellow bellied,
- more weakkneed,
- most faint-hearted,
- most faint hearted,
- yellow bellied,
- sub missive,
- lilylivered,
- more amoebalike,
- weak-willed,
- more weak kneed,
- faint hearted,
- more yellowbellied,
- most pithless,
- most weak kneed,
- weak-kneed.
- cant hack it,
- can't make grade,
- Impuissant,
- more sidelined,
- un-abler,
- out commission,
- more hogtied,
- more hog tied,
- no can do,
- more impuissant,
- most hogtied,
- most sidelined,
- un abler,
- cant make grade,
- un-ablest,
- most hog tied,
- more hog-tied,
- most hog-tied,
- cant make the grade,
- un ablest,
- most impuissant.
- more blundering,
- most ill equipped,
- most illequipped,
- out place,
- most ill-equipped,
- most ill adapted,
- more ill adapted,
- unpracticed,
- illsuited,
- in expedient,
- in-compatible,
- mis taken,
- in-congruous,
- more illadapted,
- un apter,
- heavyhanded,
- unmeetest,
- more ill-equipped,
- more unpromising,
- un meeter,
- un-promising,
- most butter fingered,
- ill suited,
- out shape,
- un-apter,
- un-meeter,
- un congenial,
- un-congenial,
- in-expedient,
- un prepared,
- most butter-fingered,
- more ill-adapted,
- in applicable,
- butter fingered,
- unmeeter,
- more illequipped,
- un meet,
- un likeliest,
- in appropriate,
- out element,
- un-likely,
- in-appropriate,
- in-harmonious,
- most butterfingered,
- in felicitous,
- un likely,
- in-applicable,
- un meetest,
- in compatible,
- more butterfingered,
- most illadapted,
- most blundering,
- un likelier,
- un-prepared,
- most ill-adapted,
- most unpromising,
- heavy handed,
- illadapted,
- un-likelier,
- un promising,
- more butter fingered,
- un-meetest,
- un-fit,
- ill equipped,
- un-aptest,
- un-becoming,
- more ill equipped,
- in-felicitous,
- un practiced,
- in harmonious,
- un becoming,
- ill adapted,
- more butter-fingered,
- Unmeet,
- un aptest,
- out of element,
- in congruous,
- un fit,
- un-practiced,
- un-meet,
- illequipped.
- un-ethical,
- un professional,
- most nonexpert,
- more nonexpert,
- non-expert,
- un-fitting,
- un fitting,
- un-professional,
- non expert,
- most unfitting,
- un ethical,
- more unfitting.
- un schooled,
- un-educated,
- un talented,
- un-talented,
- un-schooled,
- un skilled,
- un educated,
- un-skilled,
- most untalented,
- more untalented.
- in-apposite,
- un seemliest,
- in-consistent,
- dis-sonant,
- in consistent,
- un seasonable,
- in admissible,
- un-seemliest,
- un-befitting,
- in apter,
- dis sonant,
- out character,
- un suitable,
- un-seasonable,
- un-due,
- more clashing,
- interfering,
- more inapposite,
- in apposite,
- in-apter,
- out keeping,
- un seemly,
- most clashing,
- dis-proportionate,
- dis proportionate,
- most inapposite,
- uncalledfor,
- un-duer,
- un-matched,
- un seemlier,
- un duest,
- un due,
- in-admissible,
- un befitting,
- un-seemlier,
- un-suitable,
- un-duest.
n.
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- no-good,
- inexpert,
- amateur,
- someone couldn't do something if they tried,
- awful.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- suboptimal,
- so-so,
- Overrated,
- unimpressive,
- bearable,
- cowboy,
- dearth,
- substandard,
- undistinguished,
- measly,
- makeshift,
- such as it is,
- scantily,
- unspectacular,
- fallible,
- livable,
- unsatisfying,
- mediocre.
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- questionable,
- much,
- derisory,
- deficit,
- insufficiency,
- tolerable,
- limited,
- overstretched,
- indifferent,
- inadequacy,
- lame,
- deprivation.
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- under,
- iffy,
- bare,
- unsatisfied,
- below.
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- helpless,
- crack-up,
- ineffectual.
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- jar.
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- fair.
Paraphrases for Inadequate:
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Equivalence
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Preposition or subordinating conjunction
insufficient.
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Adjective
improper, insufficient.
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Proper noun, singular
improper, insufficient.
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Noun, singular or mass
improper, insufficient.
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Verb, past tense
insufficient.
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Preposition or subordinating conjunction
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Forward Entailment
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Adjective
adequate.
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Noun, singular or mass
adequate.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
disabled, disappointing, dysfunctional, erroneous, ill-equipped, impaired, inaccurate, incapable, incompetent, incongruous, inconsistent, inconvenient, insignificant, irrelevant, little, misguided, precarious, proper, proportionate, unable, unacceptable, underdeveloped, underemployed, undersized, unfavorable, unfortunate, unsafe, unachieved, ill-adapted, sub-standard, poor-quality, kefaya.
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Proper noun, singular
data.
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Noun, singular or mass
paucity.
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Interjection
BUTTERHOOK.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Coordinating conjunction
insufficient.
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Determiner
insufficient.
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Adjective
ample, appropriate, defective, deficient, disproportionate, excessive, faulty, feeble, flawed, imperfect, incorrect, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficient, inept, inexpedient, inopportune, insubstantial, outdated, poor, satisfactory, scant, scanty, scarce, substandard, sufficient, suitable, undesirable, undue, unfair, unfit, unreasonable, unsatisfactory, unseemly, unsound, unsuitable, unsuited, untimely, wrong, Underemployment, ill-suited.
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Proper noun, singular
deficient, inadequacy, lack, poor, unsatisfactory.
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Noun, singular or mass
deficient, inadequacy, lack, poor, unsatisfactory, unsuitable, Underemployment.
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Verb, non-3rd person singular present
insufficient, lack.
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Verb, base form
insufficient.
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Coordinating conjunction
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wrong-way
- Synonyms:
- reversed, counter, reflex, reversed.
