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Convenient vs Adequate - What's the difference?

convenient | adequate |

As adjectives the difference between convenient and adequate

is that convenient is of or pertaining to convenience; simple; easy; expedient while adequate is .

convenient

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to convenience; simple; easy; expedient.
    • Fast food might be convenient , but it's also very unhealthy.

    Antonyms

    * inconvenient

    Related terms

    * convene * convenience

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    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.