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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
Example Sentences
Its staffing of 37 employees to mitigate risk for more than 10 million people, it said, was “fundamentally inadequate.”
Last week, one leading contractor told the BBC that the help offered by the government so far was inadequate.
Prosecutors in Australia have filed an appeal against the sentence of mushroom murderer Erin Patterson, saying it was "manifestly inadequate".
He told me the systems designed to protect young users were fundamentally inadequate.
It found that thousands of supporters of the Swedish side had bought tickets from touts or resale websites, leading to issues of overcrowding as well as an inadequate response from police and stewards.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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