Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or condition of being inadequate.
- noun An instance of being inadequate; a failing or lack.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being inadequate, insufficient, or disproportionate; incompleteness; defectiveness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being inadequate or insufficient; defectiveness; insufficiency; inadequateness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the state of being
inadequate - noun a
shortage of required material - noun a lack of
competence orability
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun lack of an adequate quantity or number
- noun a lack of competence
- noun unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate
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Examples
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Finally, he spoke to what he described as the inadequacy of the police pension system, which denies benefits to survivors if their loved one has not served at least 10 years.
The News Tribune Blogs newstips@thenewstribune.com (DEBBIE CAFAZZO; Staff 2010
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Finally, he spoke to what he described as the inadequacy of the police pension system, which denies benefits to survivors if their loved one has not served at least 10 years.
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Whether personal inadequacy is a defence, I really could not say.
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Are you trying to project your own insecurities onto others because the fear of your own inadequacy is so great?
"Intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich”. Newmania 2008
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If you get, in public affairs, men who are so morally impoverished that they have nothing they can contribute themselves, but who hope to snatch some compensation for their own inadequacy from a political career, there can never be good government.
Some words of wisdom from long ago | Living the Liminal 2006
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As Heidegger points out, the unknowability that informs this sense of inadequacy is only tenable if the existence of the Idea is not distinguished from our experience of nature: to say that the thing-in-itself is not knowable if it is an object is not to say that it is an object.
Indifferent Freedom 2000
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Added to this was the international experience regarding the long-term inadequacy of traditional law enforcement responses to such crime over the past decade.
Briefing Notes 1994
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[Page 373] for this, often results in inadequacy in practical life, in that lack of poise which causes so many individuals to waste their energies in purposeless effort.
The Montessori Method Anne E. Montessori George 1912
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The ’superior’ attitude tells a great deal: inadequacy is rampant in the ‘dr’.
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The ’superior’ attitude tells a great deal: inadequacy is rampant in the ‘dr’.
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