Adequate vs Satisfy - What's the difference?
adequate | satisfy |
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.
To do enough for; to meet the needs of; to fulfill the wishes or requirements of.
* Milton
To cause (a sentence) to be true when the sentence is interpreted in one's universe.
(dated, literary, transitive) To convince by ascertaining; to free from doubt.
* Atterbury
* 1851 ,
To pay to the extent of what is claimed or due.
To answer or discharge (a claim, debt, legal demand, etc.); to give compensation for.
As an adjective adequate
is .As a verb satisfy is
to do enough for; to meet the needs of; to fulfill the wishes or requirements of.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.
satisfy
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Verb
(en-verb)- I'm not satisfied with the quality of the food here.
- Death shall with us two / Be forced to satisfy his ravenous maw.
- The complex numbers satisfy .
- The standing evidences of the truth of the gospel are in themselves most firm, solid, and satisfying .
- I was resolved to satisfy myself whether this ragged Elijah was really dogging us or not, and with that intent crossed the way with Queequeg, and on that side of it retraced our steps.
- to satisfy a creditor
- to satisfy a claim or an execution
