- lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task; "inadequate training"; "the staff was inadequate"; "she was unequal to the task"
- not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"
- (inadequateness) inadequacy: unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate
- (inadequacy) insufficiency: lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"
- Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions, representations, etc
- (Inadequacy) The loss or expense that is incurred by virtue of lost or reduced capacity, technological obsolescence, and/or abnormal wear and tear and that requires premature replacement or abandonment.
- (Inadequacy) A condition in which the capacity of the company's capital assets is too small to meet the company's productive demands.
- Unequal to what is required, unable to meet a need.