inadequate

1. Lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task (synset 300051936)
   "inadequate training"; "the staff was inadequate"; "she was unequal to the task"
   also: unsatisfactory - not giving satisfaction
   tells us about: adequacy, adequateness - the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily:
   similar to:

   • deficient, lacking, wanting - inadequate in amount or degree
   • incapable, incompetent, unequal to - not meeting requirements
   • short-handed, short-staffed, undermanned, understaffed - inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc.
   same as: unequal
2. Of insufficient quantity to meet a need (synset 302344882)
   "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"; "the jejune diets of the very poor"
   similar to: deficient, insufficient - of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement
   same as: jejune, poor, short

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