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Properly vs Adequate - What's the difference?

properly | adequate |

As an adverb properly

is in a proper manner.

As an adjective adequate is

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properly

English

Alternative forms

* proprely

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • in a proper manner
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  • (obsolete) individually; in one's own manner
    • Now herkenyth how I bar me properly . — Chaucer.

    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.