Justifiable vs Adequate - What's the difference?
justifiable | adequate | Related terms |
That can be justified.
* 1917 , Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory ,
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.
Justifiable is a related term of adequate.
As adjectives the difference between justifiable and adequate
is that justifiable is that can be justified while adequate is .justifiable
English
Adjective
(en-adj)Part II.
- ''It was at all times clear that, from the point of view of the idea it conveys to us, every motion must be considered only as a relative motion. Returning to the illustration we have frequently used of the embankment and the railway carriage, we can express the fact of the motion here taking place in the following two forms, both of which are equally justifiable :
- ''(a) The carriage is in motion relative to the embankment,
- ''(b) The embankment is in motion relative to the carriage.
- In (a) the embankment, in (b) the carriage, serves as the body of reference in our statement of the motion taking place. —
Antonyms
* unjustifiableadequate
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.
