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Unlimited vs Adequate - What's the difference?

unlimited | adequate |

As adjectives the difference between unlimited and adequate

is that unlimited is limitless or without bounds; unrestricted while adequate is equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition lawfully and physically sufficient.

As a verb adequate is

to equalize; to make adequate.

unlimited

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • limitless or without bounds; unrestricted
  • Synonyms

    * (without bounds) infinite, endless, everlasting, eternal * (unrestricted) absolute

    Antonyms

    * limited * finite

    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.