adequately

[ˈædɪkwɪtlɪ] ADV [prepared, trained, protected] → suficientemente; [punish] → de forma apropiada; [respond] → apropiadamente; [perform] → de forma aceptable
this has never been adequately explained → esto nunca se ha explicado con claridad
he speaks the language adequately → habla el idioma de forma aceptable

adequately

[ˈædɪkwətli] adv

(= sufficiently) [pay, fund] → suffisamment; [protect] → suffisamment

(= satisfactorily) [perform] → de manière satisfaisante

adequately

adv

(= sufficiently) prepared, trained, protected → ausreichend; insured → angemessen; to be adequately supplied → genügend Vorräte haben

(= satisfactorily) function, respond, perform, explain → angemessen; I speak Turkish adequately → ich spreche hinlänglich Türkisch

adequately

[ˈædɪkwɪtlɪ] adv (heated, paid) → adeguatamente, sufficientemente; (perform, answer) → convenientemente
will he do it adequately? → sarà all'altezza?

adequate

(ˈӕdikwət) adjective

sufficient; enough. He does not earn a large salary but it is adequate for his needs.

ˈadequately adverb

ˈadequacy noun

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Unerringly impelling this dead, impregnable, uninjurable wall, and this most buoyant thing within; there swims behind it all a mass of tremendous life, only to be adequately estimated as piled wood is --by the cord; and all obedient to one volition, as the smallest insect.

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I had been adequately armed by Russian Peter; the snake was old and lazy; and I had Antonia beside me, to appreciate and admire.

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Oh, but you know," she quite adequately answered, "that you might come back, you dear, and that you HAVE

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Or is it, after all, to quote him once more, that beyond those ever- recurring pagan misgivings, those pale pagan consolations, our generation feels yet cannot adequately express--

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All that dark treasure to be lavished on the very man, to whom nothing else could so adequately pay the debt of vengeance!

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Occasionally, perhaps, it is necessary to coin words, if no word exists by which a correlation can adequately be explained.

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Altogether such heroism as was displayed by the Russian warriors cannot be imagined or adequately praised

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They had adequately expressed the pause his vision had put in the conversation.

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I cannot adequately relate my astonishment at this uncommon inscription

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No one has ever adequately described either in verse or prose the true essential nature of either of them abiding in the soul, and invisible to any human or divine eye; or shown that of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good, and injustice the greatest evil.

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So far as what there may be of a narrative in this book; and, indeed, as indirectly touching one or two very interesting and curious particulars in the habits of sperm whales, the foregoing chapter, in its earliest part, is as important a one as will be found in this volume; but the leading matter of it requires to be still further and more familiarly enlarged upon, in order to be adequately understood, and moreover to take away any incredulity which a profound ignorance of the entire subject may induce in some minds, as to the natural verity of the main points of this affair.

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He debated and hesitated;--it was a serious charge;-- a girl so brought up must be adequately provided for, or there would be cruelty instead of kindness in taking her from her family.