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adequately

adv

Etymology

From adequate + -ly.

  1. learned borrowing from adaequātus
  2. formed as adequately — “adequate + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In an adequate manner.

  2. Sufficient to satisfy a requirement or meet a need

    Sufficient to satisfy a requirement or meet a need; sufficiently; satisfactorily.

    • A loving relationship with a proper companion animal, a relationship that adequately provides for the animal's physical and psychological needs, is not at all inconsistent with the principles and advocacy of animal rights.

  3. Barely satisfactory or sufficient.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at adequately. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at adequately. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at adequately

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA