Unlimited vs Adequate - What's the difference?
unlimited | adequate |
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 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
English
(wikipedia unlimited)Synonyms
* (without bounds) infinite, endless, everlasting, eternal * (unrestricted) absoluteAntonyms
* limited * finiteadequate
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.