Inadequate

Adjective

 * 1) Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions, representations, etc.

Adverbs for Inadequate
hopelessly; entirely; lamentably; deplorably; miserably; wretchedly; cruelly; bitterly; wholly; utterly; disproportionately; deliberately; incredibly; stingily; criminally; iniquitously;  mercilessly;  ruthlessly; grievously; pitifully; altogether.

Thesaurus
adulterated, arrested, asymmetric, barren, base, blemished, bootless, callow, counterproductive, damaged, defective, deficient, disappointing, disheartening, disparate, displeasing, disproportionate, dissatisfactory, effete, emasculate, embryonic, empty, erroneous, etiolated, failing, fallible, fatuitous, fatuous, faulty, feckless, forceless, found wanting, fruitless, futile, half-assed, hypoplastic, ill-matched, ill-qualified, ill-sorted, immature, impaired, imperfect, impotent, imprecise, impure, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in short supply, inaccurate, inane, inappreciable, incapable, incommensurate, incompetent, incomplete, inconsiderable, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inexact, infant, inferior, inoperative, insufficient, invalid, invertebrate, irregular, lacking, little, makeshift, maladjusted, maladroit, mean, mediocre, minus, mismatched, missing, mixed, needing, not comparable, not enough, not equal to, not good enough, not in it, not perfect, not up to, nugacious, nugatory, odd, of no force, off, out of it, out of proportion, part, partial, patchy, petty, scant, scanty, scarce, scrappy, scrimpy, shabby, short, short of, shy, sketchy, skew, skewed, skimpy, small, spineless, sterile, too little, trivial, unable, unadapted, unadjusted, unavailing, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unequal, unequal to, unequipped, uneven, unfinished, unfit, unfitted, unfulfilling, ungratifying, unperfected, unqualified, unreached, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, unskillful, unsound, unsufficing, unthorough, useless, vain, wanting, weak

Alternative forms

 * inadæquate

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: puutteellinen, sopimaton, vaillinainen, riittämätön
 * French: inadéquat
 * German:
 * Korean: 부족한 (不足한)


 * Romanian: inadecvat,, inadecvată, neadecvată, nepotrivit
 * Russian: неадекватный
 * Turkish: yetersiz,,  kıt