Inadequate vs Imperfect - What's the difference?
inadequate | imperfect |
Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions, representations, etc.
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Not perfect.
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(botany) unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
(taxonomy) Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
(obsolete) Lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
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Something having a minor flaw
(grammar) A tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous.
As adjectives the difference between inadequate and imperfect
is that inadequate is while imperfect is not perfect.As a noun imperfect is
something having a minor flaw.inadequate
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
- In a convulsion that has caught many in Brazil and beyond by surprise, waves of protesters denounced their leaders for dedicating so many resources to cultivating Brazil’s global image by building stadiums for international events, when basic services like education and health care remain woefully inadequate .
imperfect
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect .
- Nothing imperfect or deficient left / Of all that he created.
- Then say not man's imperfect , Heaven in fault; / Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.
- He stammered like a child, or an amazed, imperfect person.