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adequate to

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Adj.1.adequate toadequate to - having the requisite qualities for; "equal to the task"; "the work isn't up to the standard I require"
equal to, up to, capable
adequate, equal - having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task; "she had adequate training"; "her training was adequate"; "she was adequate to the job"; "he was equal to the task"
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Perhaps Charles Strickland was dull judged by a standard that demanded above all things verbal scintillation; but his intelligence was adequate to his surroundings, and that is a passport, not only to reasonable success, but still more to happiness.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
His punishment should be adequate to the immensity of his crime.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
"I wish you to observe," says Cardinal Newman, "that the mere dealer in words cares little or nothing for the subject which he is embellishing, but can paint and gild anything whatever to order; whereas the artist, whom I am acknowledging, has his great or rich visions before him, and his only aim is to bring out what he thinks or what he feels in a way adequate to the thing spoken of, and appropriate to the speaker.
The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context
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