lacking the quality or quantity required; insufficient for a purpose 不充足的 these labels prove to be wholly inadequate. 这些标签证明完全不够。 inadequate funding. 不充足的资金支持。 ■(of a person) unable to deal with a situation or with life (人)不胜任的;不会生活的 a sad, solitary, inadequate man. 一个忧愁,孤独,不会生活的男人。 I felt like a fraud, inadequate to the task. 我胜任不了这项任务,因而感到自己像个骗子。
派生 inadequacy ( pl. -ies) noun(pl. -ies) inadequately adverb