What is another word for inadequate?
778 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ɪnˈadɪkwət], [ ɪnˈadɪkwət], [ ɪ_n_ˈa_d_ɪ_k_w_ə_t]Table of Contents
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)
- 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 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.
- 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.
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.
-
•
- helpless,
- crack-up,
- ineffectual.
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•
- jar.
-
•
- 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
inaccurate, inconvenient, ill-equipped, little, incompetent, ill-adapted, incongruous, misguided, sub-standard, irrelevant, poor-quality, underdeveloped, disappointing, proper, precarious, underemployed, insignificant, incapable, unacceptable, unfavorable, proportionate, unachieved, unfortunate, disabled, impaired, inconsistent, kefaya, erroneous, unable, undersized, dysfunctional, unsafe.
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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
sufficient, disproportionate, flawed, inefficient, substandard, ill-suited, defective, ineffective, appropriate, unfit, incorrect, unsuited, imperfect, insubstantial, wrong, scanty, scarce, faulty, suitable, unsuitable, satisfactory, unreasonable, unsound, inept, deficient, scant, inopportune, ineffectual, inexpedient, excessive, outdated, undue, feeble, unseemly, unsatisfactory, undesirable, Underemployment, poor, ample, unfair, untimely.
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Proper noun, singular
deficient, inadequacy, unsatisfactory, poor, lack.
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Noun, singular or mass
unsuitable, deficient, inadequacy, unsatisfactory, Underemployment, poor, lack.
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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
Antonyms for Inadequate:
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adj.
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all
adequate.
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all