Usually means: Not sufficient to meet needs.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word inadequate:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. inadequate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. inadequate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inadequate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inadequate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inadequate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inadequate, inadequate: Wordnik
  7. inadequate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inadequate: Wiktionary
  9. inadequate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inadequate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inadequate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. inadequate: Dictionary.com
  13. inadequate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Inadequate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. inadequate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. inadequate: Rhymezone
  17. inadequate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. inadequate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. INADEQUATE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. inadequate: Free Dictionary
  21. inadequate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. inadequate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inadequate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inadequate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. INADEQUATE: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inadequate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See inadequately as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not adequate; lacking in quality or quantity required; insufficient for a purpose.
noun:  A person who is inadequate.

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