Adequate for
as much or as good as necessary for some requirement or purpose; fully sufficient, suitable, or fit (often followed by to or for):
this car is adequate to our needs. adequate food for fifty people.
barely sufficient or suitable:
being adequate is not good enough.
law. reasonably sufficient for starting legal action:
adequate grounds.
adjective
able to fulfil a need or requirement without being abundant, outstanding, etc
adj.
1610s, from latin adaequatus “equalized,” past participle of adaequare “to make equal to,” from ad- “to” (see ad-) + aequare “make level,” from aequus (see equal). the sense is of being “equal to what is required.” related: adequateness.
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