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Cromulent vs Adequate - What's the difference?

cromulent | adequate |

As adjectives the difference between cromulent and adequate

is that cromulent is (humorous) fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic while adequate is .

cromulent

English

(Wikipedia)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (humorous) Fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic.
  • * {{quote-video
    • , date = 1996-02-18 , people = Matt Groening et al. , episode = , title = , season = 7 , number = 16 , section = production code 3F13 , passage = Mrs. Krabappel:'' "Embiggens"? I never heard that word before moving to Springfield.
    ''Ms. Hoover:'' I don't know why, it's a perfectly cromulent''' word.

    ''Principal Skinner:'' He's embiggened that role with his ' cromulent performance. }}

  • * {{quote-song
    • , date = 2005-08-27 , composer = (MC Frontalot) , title = Nerdcore Rising , album = (Nerdcore Rising) , url = http://last.fm/music/MC+Frontalot/_/Nerdcore+Rising , passage = We consider the possibleness of this not overstated.
    And I know that "possibleness" is not a cromulent word;
    every syllable injected is intended to be the one you heard
    (an absurd juxtaposition of mission and goal). }}
  • * {{quote-news
    • , date = 2006-04-10 , title = Obituaries and In Memoriams: Benjamin Sidney Linton , newspaper = Charlotte Observer , passage = He had a boundless passion for music and entertained many with his beautiful voice and perfectly cromulent sense of humor. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , date = 2007-10-26 , first = Alan M. , last = Polansky , title = Observed Confidence Levels , publisher = Chapman & Hall , location = Boca Raton , isbn = 9781584888024 , ol = 12313827M , page = 216 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=Orh1ItRBVcEC&pg=PA216&dq=cromulent , passage = There are certainly other cromulent techniques which may perform well for certain models and assumptions. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 2008 , first = David A. , last = Karp , title = Windows Vista Annoyances , publisher = , location = Sebastopol , isbn = 9780596527624 , ol = 10781059M , page = 505 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=5SbK_xPgnK8C&pg=PA505&dq=cromulent , passage = Of course, you may encounter a new program that doesn't work reliably with UNC paths, and this is a perfectly cromulent workaround. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , date = 2009-05-15 , first = Bryan , last = O'Sullivan , coauthors = Stewart, Don; Goerzen, John , title = Real World Haskell , publisher = , location = Sebastopol , isbn = 9780596514983 , ol = 22647856M , page = 86 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=nh0okI1a1sQC&pg=PA86&dq=cromulent , passage = How well does this function work? For positive integers, it's perfectly cromulent . }}

    See also

    * embiggen English terms derived from The Simpsons

    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.