English > inadequate: 2 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task. |
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| Examples | - "inadequate training"
- "the staff was inadequate"
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| Synonym | unequal |
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| Attribute of | adequacy, adequateness | The quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily |
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| Narrower | deficient, lacking, wanting | inadequate in amount or degree |
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| incapable, incompetent, unequal to | not meeting requirements |
| short-handed, short-staffed, undermanned, understaffed | inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc. |
| See also | unsatisfactory | not giving satisfaction |
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| Opposite | adequate, equal | Having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task |
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| Spanish | desigual, inadecuado, inigual |
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| Catalan | inadequat |
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| Nouns | inadequateness | unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate / inadequate |
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| Adverbs | inadequately | in an inadequate manner or to an inadequate degree |
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