Adequate vs Courtyard - What's the difference?
adequate | courtyard |
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
* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Empty House
(obsolete) To equalize; to make adequate.
(obsolete) To equal.
an area, open to the sky, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings
As an adjective adequate
is .As a noun courtyard is
an area, open to the sky, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings.adequate
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- Ireland had no adequate champion.
- 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
* inadequateVerb
(adequat)- (Fotherby)
- It [is] an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity. — Shelford.
courtyard
English
(wikipedia courtyard)Noun
(en noun)- She sat in the courtyard , enjoying the garden.
