Adequate vs Expert - What's the difference?
adequate | expert |
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.
Extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable.
Characteristic of an expert.
A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject.
* If an expert''' says it can't be done, get another '''expert . -
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (chess) A player ranking just below master.
As an adjective adequate
is .As a noun expert is
(label) rate assessor.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.
expert
English
(wikipedia expert)Adjective
(en adjective)- I am expert at making a simple situation complex.
- My cousin is an expert pianist.
- This problem requires expert knowledge.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* inexpert * nonexpertNoun
(en noun)Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}