Worthy vs Adequate - What's the difference?
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having worth, merit or value
* Shakespeare
* Sir J. Davies
honourable or admirable
deserving, or having sufficient worth
Suited; befitting.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Matthew iii. 11
* Milton
* Dryden
a distinguished or eminent person
To render or treat as worthy; exalt; revere; honour; esteem; respect; value; reward; adore.
* 1880 , Sir Norman Lockyer, Nature :
* 1908 , Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts, The court of Russia in the nineteenth century :
* 1910 , Charles William Eliot, The Harvard classics: Beowulf :
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 worthy and adequate
is that worthy is having worth, merit, or value 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 verbs the difference between worthy and adequate
is that worthy is to render or treat as worthy; exalt; revere; honour; esteem; respect; value; reward; adore while adequate is to equalize; to make adequate.As a noun worthy
is a distinguished or eminent person.worthy
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) worthy, wurthi, from (etyl) *.Adjective
(er)- These banished men that I have kept withal / Are men endued with worthy qualities.
- This worthy' mind should ' worthy things embrace.
- No, Warwick, thou art worthy of the sway.
- whose shoes I am not worthy to bear.
- And thou art worthy that thou shouldst not know / More happiness.
- The lodging is well worthy of the guest.
Derived terms
* worthily * worthinessNoun
(worthies)Etymology 2
From (etyl) worthien, wurthien, from (etyl) .Verb
- And put upon him such a deal of man, That worthied him, got praises of the king [...]'' — Shakespeare, ''King Lear .
- After having duly paid his addresses to it, he generally spends some time on the marble slab in front of the looking-glass, but without showing the slightest emotion at the sight of his own reflection, or worthying it with a song.
- And it is a poor daub besides," the Emperor rejoined scornfully, as he stalked out of the gallery without worthying the artist with a look.
- No henchman he worthied by weapons, if witness his features, his peerless presence!
Derived terms
* (l) * (l) ----adequate
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.