Synonyms for Inadequate:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • inadequate,
  • unequal.
  •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.
  •beggarly (adjective)
  • poverty stricken,
  • povertystricken.
  •cowardly (adjective)
  • spineless.
  •defective (adjective)
  • 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.
  •defective, insufficient, incompetent (adjective)
  • 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.
  •deficient (adjective)
  • insufficient.
  •disappointing (adjective)
  • unfulfilling,
  • falling short.
  •dissatisfactory (adjective)
  • no good,
  • not satisfying,
  • not up to par.
  •exiguous (adjective)
  • tiny.
  •failing (adjective)
  • Unsufficient,
  • Unthriving,
  • fainter,
  • unprosperous.
  •faulty (adjective)
  • 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.
  •feeble (adjective)
  • inefficient,
  • out of gas,
  • wimpy,
  • in firm,
  • fragile,
  • Strengthless,
  • enervated,
  • sapless.
  •flimsy (adjective)
  • 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.
  •imperfect (adjective)
  • spoiled,
  • second-rate,
  • blemished,
  • tainted,
  • blotched.
  •impotent (adjective)
  • powerless,
  • forceless,
  • disabled,
  • Infecund.
  •incapable (adjective)
  • 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.
  •incommensurate (adjective)
  • 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.
  •incompetent (adjective)
  • 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.
  •incomplete (adjective)
  • unconsummated,
  • half done,
  • Unaccomplished,
  • half-done,
  • Unexecuted,
  • under construction,
  • fragmentary,
  • Parter.
  •inconsequential (adjective)
  • in consequential,
  • in-consequential,
  • entry level,
  • two bit.
  •inconsequential/inconsiderable (adjective)
  • 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.
  •ineffective (adjective)
  • 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.
  •ineffective/ineffectual (adjective)
  • 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.
  •ineffectual (adjective)
  • in effectual,
  • in-effectual.
  •inefficacious (adjective)
  • in efficacious,
  • in-efficacious.
  •insufficient (adjective)
  • stingy,
  • Flyspeck.
  •lacking (adjective)
  • 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.
  •lame (adjective)
  • lamest,
  • more faltering,
  • more unpleasing,
  • most faltering,
  • un-pleasing,
  • most unpleasing,
  • un pleasing.
  •lean (adjective)
  • in-fertile,
  • stilt,
  • more sylphlike,
  • stiltest,
  • more shadow,
  • most beanpole,
  • in fertile,
  • scraggier,
  • gangling,
  • more beanpole,
  • stickest,
  • stilter,
  • most shadow,
  • most sylphlike.
  •light (adjective)
  • wee,
  • lightest,
  • not many,
  • not much,
  • not rich,
  • hardly any,
  • hardly enough.
  •low (adjective)
  • marked down,
  • lower,
  • uncostly.
  •pale (adjective)
  • doughiest,
  • more waxlike,
  • waxlike,
  • washedout,
  • most whitish,
  • pasty,
  • most bleached,
  • most waxlike,
  • more whitish,
  • more bleached,
  • washed-out.
  •pathetic (adjective)
  • more commiserable,
  • most commiserable.
  •pitiful (adjective)
  • pitiable,
  • tearful,
  • scurvy.
  •rotten (adjective)
  • 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.
  •ruthful (adjective)
  • ruthful.
  •second-rate (adjective)
  • 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.
  •short (adjective)
  • shorthanded,
  • shortest,
  • low on.
  •sketchy (adjective)
  • uncritical,
  • Depthless.
  •small (adjective)
  • mini,
  • minor-league,
  • runty,
  • under-sized,
  • pocket-sized,
  • shrimp,
  • bitty,
  • small-scale,
  • one-horse,
  • pint-sized,
  • Toyer,
  • small-fry,
  • shrimper,
  • small fry.
  •sorry (adjective)
  • Despisable,
  • scummy,
  • scummier.
  •sparse (adjective)
  • scrimpier,
  • un commoner,
  • un common,
  • un-commoner,
  • un commonest,
  • scrimpiest,
  • most dispersed,
  • un-common,
  • more dispersed,
  • few far between.
  •spineless (adjective)
  • 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.
  •substandard (adjective)
  • SUBPAR.,
  • junker,
  • below standard.
  •thin (adjective)
  • un tenable,
  • most stretched,
  • more stretched,
  • un-tenable,
  • most diluted.
  •unable (adjective)
  • 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.
  •unacceptable (adjective)
  • untenable,
  • unsuitable,
  • inadmissible,
  • unacceptable,
  • inappropriate,
  • intolerable.
  •unfit (adjective)
  • 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.
  •unprofessional (adjective)
  • un-ethical,
  • un professional,
  • most nonexpert,
  • more nonexpert,
  • non-expert,
  • un-fitting,
  • un fitting,
  • un-professional,
  • non expert,
  • most unfitting,
  • un ethical,
  • more unfitting.
  •unqualified (adjective)
  • un qualified,
  • bushest,
  • un-qualified.
  •unskilled (adjective)
  • un schooled,
  • un-educated,
  • un talented,
  • un-talented,
  • un-schooled,
  • un skilled,
  • un educated,
  • un-skilled,
  • most untalented,
  • more untalented.
  •unsuitable (adjective)
  • 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.
  •untrained (adjective)
  • unskilled.
  •useless (adjective)
  • impractical,
  • unserviceable,
  • futile,
  • unusable,
  • nonfunctional,
  • good-for-nothing,
  • unworkable,
  • useless,
  • fruitless.
  •weak (adjective)
  • weakest.
  •woeful (adjective)
  • most grieving,
  • most anguished,
  • more agonized,
  • heartsick,
  • more racked,
  • most racked,
  • most agonized,
  • most tortured,
  • more grieving,
  • more anguished,
  • more tortured,
  • Racked.

• n.

  •
  • no-good,
  • inexpert,
  • amateur,
  • someone couldn't do something if they tried,
  • awful.
  •inadequate (noun)
  • understaffed,
  • undermanned,
  • short-handed,
  • unequal to,
  • short-staffed.
  •incompetent (noun)
  • inept.
  •inferior (noun)
  • scrubby.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • suboptimal,
  • so-so,
  • Overrated,
  • unimpressive,
  • bearable,
  • cowboy,
  • dearth,
  • substandard,
  • undistinguished,
  • measly,
  • makeshift,
  • such as it is,
  • scantily,
  • unspectacular,
  • fallible,
  • livable,
  • unsatisfying,
  • mediocre.
  •
  • questionable,
  • much,
  • derisory,
  • deficit,
  • insufficiency,
  • tolerable,
  • limited,
  • overstretched,
  • indifferent,
  • inadequacy,
  • lame,
  • deprivation.
  •
  • under,
  • iffy,
  • bare,
  • unsatisfied,
  • below.
  •
  • helpless,
  • crack-up,
  • ineffectual.
  •
  • jar.
  •
  • fair.
  •
  • off,
  • tight.
  •destitute
  • beggarly.
  •expendable
  • exhaustible.
  •inconsiderable
  • slight.
  •scarce
  • scant.

Paraphrases for Inadequate:

• Equivalence

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

• Forward Entailment

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

• Independent

  • 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.
  • Proper noun, singular
    data.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    paucity.
  • Interjection
    BUTTERHOOK.

• Other Related

  • Coordinating conjunction
    insufficient.
  • Determiner
    insufficient.
  • 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.
  • Proper noun, singular
    deficient, inadequacy, unsatisfactory, poor, lack.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    unsuitable, deficient, inadequacy, unsatisfactory, Underemployment, poor, lack.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    insufficient, lack.
  • Verb, base form
    insufficient.

Antonyms for Inadequate:

• adj.

  • all
    adequate.
  • defective, insufficient, incompetent
    potent, perfect, capable, able, enough, strong, full, sufficient, complete, competent, finished, abundant.
  • Other antonyms:
    hefty, super, king-size, rich, jumbo, largish, big, sizable, enlarged, substantial, expanded, large, considerable, up to, oversize.