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Grammar : Noun
Spell : ad-i-kwuh-see
Phonetic Transcription : ˈæd ɪ kwə si



Definition of adequacy

  • noun ability, competency in some
Example sentences :
  • Reardon made the only answer possible, and felt the thrill of his own adequacy.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
  • Has anything arisen to disprove the adequacy of correspondence?
  • Extract from : « The World I Live In » by Helen Keller
  • Perhaps but for the three days' rain he might have got away without a doubt as to his adequacy.
  • Extract from : « The Reef » by Edith Wharton
  • He felt the adequacy of this life as a determiner of the eternal destiny of all men.
  • Extract from : « India, Its Life and Thought » by John P. Jones
  • Ultimately there is no adequacy, we are all weighed in the balance and found wanting.
  • Extract from : « First and Last Things » by H. G. Wells
  • Our concept of Reality must be symmetrical, or fail of adequacy.
  • Extract from : « Beauty and the Beast » by Stewart A. McDowall
  • Adequacy and destructiveness of armament are strictly relative terms.
  • Extract from : « The Fruits of Victory » by Norman Angell
  • The conception of adequacy revealed in the replies must have been equally various.
  • Extract from : « English Poor Law Policy » by Sidney Webb
  • She looked about her, indeed, with a certain appreciation of its coziness and adequacy.
  • Extract from : « Clark's Field » by Robert Herrick
  • But the reason of this adequacy in story contains in itself her greatest triumph.
  • Extract from : « The English Novel » by George Saintsbury

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