Properly vs Adequate - What's the difference?
properly | adequate |
in a proper manner
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(obsolete) individually; in one's own manner
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.
As an adverb properly
is in a proper manner.As an adjective adequate is
.properly
English
Alternative forms
* proprelyAdverb
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- Now herkenyth how I bar me properly . — Chaucer.
adequate
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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.