Adequate vs Makeshift - What's the difference?
adequate | makeshift |
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.
A temporary, usually insubstantial, substitution for something else.
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Made to work or suffice; improvised; substituted.
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As adjectives the difference between adequate and makeshift
is that adequate is equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition lawfully and physically sufficient while makeshift is made to work or suffice; improvised; substituted.As a verb adequate
is to equalize; to make adequate.As a noun makeshift is
a temporary, usually insubstantial, substitution for something else.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.
makeshift
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Noun
(en noun)- I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift .
Adjective
(en adjective)- They used the ledge and a few branches for a makeshift shelter.
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