Qualities
Synonyms for adequate
Synonyms for adequate: enough and equal. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for adequate
Interchangeable with adequate in this sense
Audited under adequate's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one adequate carries in that sense.
- enoughadjective, in the sense "sufficient for the purpose"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name adequate as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- equalequal is an adjective in the sense "having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task"
The first group is filed under adequate's own sense. The second reaches adequate from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
sufficient for the purpose
An adequate income.
The true synonym
enough
Same sentence, swapped: An enough income.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where adequate stands in the sentence above.
- satisfying
- productive
- common
Where adequate turns up in the game
adequate is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where adequate is the trap
- unequaladjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is inadequate, in the sense "lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task", so adequate is there to be ruled out.
Play adequate
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so adequate reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from qualities at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
adequate is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.