adequacy | Definition of adequacy

Synonyms and Antonyms of adequacy

the quality or state of meeting one's needs adequately

the fire department sent someone to determine the adequacy of the building's evacuation plan

Synonyms of adequacy

acceptability, satisfactoriness, sufficiency

Words Related to adequacy

appropriateness, correctness, fitness, goodness, properness, rightness, seemliness, suitability, suitableness, tolerability

bountifulness, copiousness

excess, overabundance, oversupply, surfeit, surplus

abundance, amplitude, opulence, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plentitude, plenty

Near Antonyms of adequacy

crunch, dearth, deficit, famine, lack, shortage

meagerness, paucity, poorness, poverty, rareness, rarity, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, skimpiness

necessity, need, privation

Antonyms of adequacy

inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, unsatisfactoriness