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adequate

/ˈæd.ə.kwɪt/ adjective B2
  1. Equal to or fulfilling some requirement. · powers adequate to a great work· an adequate definition
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I could think of no other adequate solutions.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 26 · B2
I can assure you that the adequate cataloguing of one of those cabinets would take me three good months."
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 81 · B2
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.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 2 · C1
Franz had already made seven or eight similar excursions to the Colosseum, while his less favored companion trod for the first time in his life the classic ground forming the monument of Flavius Vespasian; and, to his credit be it spoken, his mind, even amid the glib loquacity of the guides, was duly and deeply touched with awe and enthusiastic admiration of all he saw; and certainly no adequate notion of these stupendous ruins can be formed save by such as have visited them, and more especially by moonlight, at which time the vast proportions of the building appear twice as large when viewed by the mysterious beams of a southern moonlit sky, whose rays are sufficiently clear and vivid to light the horizon with a glow equal to the soft twilight of a western clime.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 352 · C1

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