Word Meanings - INADEQUATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions, representations, etc. Dryden. -- In*ad"e*quate*ly, adv. -- In*ad"e*quate*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INADEQUATE)
- Light
- Imponderous
- portable
- unweighty
- buoyant
- volatile
- easy
- digestible
- scanty
- active
- unencumbered
- empty
- slight
- gentle
- unsteady
- capricious
- vain
- frivolous
- characterless
- thoughtless
- unthoughtful
- unconsidered
- inadequate
- incompact
- unsubstantial
- inconsiderable
- not difficult
- bright
- whitish
- trifling
- Slender
- Thin
- narrow
- slim
- small
- trivial
- spare
- fragile
- feeble
- flimsy
- meagre
- superficial
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INADEQUATE)
Related words: (words related to INADEQUATE)
- BRIGHT
See I - SLIGHTNESS
The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard. - LIGHT
licht, OHG. lioht, Goth. liuhap, Icel. lj, L. lux light, lucere to 1. That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous. Note: Light was regarded formerly - WASTEL
A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott. - LAVISHNESS
The quality or state of being lavish. - TRIFLE
trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong - UNCONSIDERED
Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak. - WASTETHRIFT
A spendthrift. - SPENDTHRIFT
One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis. - CAPRICIOUS
Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam. Syn. -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful; - LAVISHER
One who lavishes. - SPENDER
One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift. - SLIGHTEN
To slight. B. Jonson. - LIGHTSOME
1. Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon. 2. Gay; airy; cheering; exhilarating. That lightsome affection of joy. Hooker. -- Light"some*ly, adv. -- Light"some*ness, n. Happiness - DIGESTIBLE
Capable of being digested. - WASTEBOARD
See 3 - SQUANDER
scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqvätta to squirt, sqvättra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw 1. To scatter; to disperse. Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden. 2. To spend lavishly or profusely; - SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - SLIGHTINGLY
In a slighting manner. - LIGHTNESS
The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; delicacy; grace. Syn. -- Levity; volatility; instability; inconstancy; unsteadiness; giddiness; flightiness; airiness; gayety; liveliness; agility; - SELF-ACTIVE
Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents. - ALKALI WASTE
Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste. - DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - CHYLIFACTIVE
Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle. - BESCATTER
1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser. - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - OVERWASTED
Wasted or worn out; Drayton. - DELIGHTING
Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor. - DISRESPECTABILITY
Want of respectability. Thackeray. - DRUMMOND LIGHT
A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called - TRANSPARENT
transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent