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adequate / suficiente
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adequate
1. (=sufficient) [funds] suficiente
·an adequate supply of food
·suficientes alimentos
·one teaspoonful should be adequate
·una cucharadita bastará or será suficiente
·I didn't think the sentence was adequate
·la sentencia no me pareció correcta
2. (=satisfactory) [diet] equilibrado, apropiado [income, standard] aceptable [housing, facilities] adecuado, apropiado
·he failed to provide an adequate explanation for the delay
·no fue capaz de dar una explicaciónoun convincente de su retraso
·is she the most adequate person to do it?
·¿es la persona masculineánoun adecuada or idónea para hacerlo?
·there are no words adequate to express my gratitude
·no hay palabras que expresen adecuadamente mi gratitud
a. to be adequate [for] somebody
[housing] ser adecuado para somebody, someone
·my income is quite adequate for my needs
·mis ingresos cubren bien mis necesidades
·this saw should be adequate for the job
·este serrucho valdrá para ese trabajo
b. this typewriter is [perfectly] adequate = esta masculineáquina de escribir me sirve perfectamente
c. to feel adequate [to] a task = sentirse capacitado para una tarea
3. pejorative
(=passable) [performance, essay] aceptable, pasable
·the pay was adequate but hardly out of this world
·el sueldo era aceptable or pasable, pero desde luego, nada del otro mundo
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged and Audio Headword Pronunciation (Spanish) 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co Ltd. 1971,1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992,1993,1996,1997,2000,2003,2005.
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