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Adequate vs Becoming - What's the difference?

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Adequate is a related term of becoming.


As adjectives the difference between adequate and becoming

is that adequate is while becoming is pleasingly suitable; fit; congruous.

As a verb becoming is

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As a noun becoming is

(chiefly|philosophy) the act or process in which something becomes.

adequate

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition lawfully and physically sufficient.
  • * De Quincey
    • Ireland had no adequate champion.
  • * Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Empty House
    • All day, as I drove upon my round, I turned over the case in my mind and found no explanation which appeared to me to be adequate .

    Antonyms

    * inadequate

    Verb

    (adequat)
  • (obsolete) To equalize; to make adequate.
    • (Fotherby)
  • (obsolete) To equal.
    • It [is] an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity. — Shelford.

    becoming

    English

    (wikipedia becoming)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, philosophy) The act or process in which something becomes.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • pleasingly suitable; fit; congruous
  • decent, respectable