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inadequate
adjective as in defective, insufficient, incompetent
Strongest matches
deficient, faulty, incompetent, incomplete, lacking, meager, poor, sad, scarce, sketchy, skimpy, unequal, weak
Weak matches
bare, barren, bush-league, depleted, dry, failing, feeble, found wanting, glitch, imperfect, impotent, inappreciable, inapt, incapable, incommensurate, inconsiderable, insubstantial, junk, lame, lemon, lousy, low, minus, miserly, not enough, parsimonious, scanty, short, shy, small, spare, sparse, sterile, stinted, stunted, thin, too little, unproductive, unqualified
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Example Sentences
Obsessive exercising and inadequate nutrition can, over time, put people at high risk for overuse injuries like stress fractures.
The city has taken inadequate steps or no steps at all to control the violent acts of its law-enforcement personnel.
There was also the question of inadequate protective gear and insufficient instruction.
The totally inadequate international response must shoulder blame as well.
“There was a sense the response had been inadequate and slow,” Reed says.
Every human being behind that absurdly inadequate wall was exposed to constant and equal danger.
Hilda's assumption that the ageing woman had telegraphed for her on inadequate grounds had proved to be quite wrong.
It goes no further than the denunciation of the peer, and the raising of a subscription (generally inadequate) for the sufferers.
That Determinist conclusion would be followed by the usual inadequate subscription.
One would be unwilling to press a certain lack of enthusiasm for their King, or a suspicion of inadequate generalship.
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On this page you'll find 140 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to inadequate, such as: deficient, faulty, incompetent, incomplete, lacking, and meager.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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