Adequately and Deficiently

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Adequately adverb - In a satisfactory way.

Usage example: we weren't completely bowled over by the performance, but the band certainly played more than adequately

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Deficiently is an antonym for adequately.

Nearby Words: adequate, adequacy, adequation

Deficiently adverb - In an unsatisfactory way.

Usage example: the road to the mountain lodge is so deficiently marked that we had a terrible time finding it

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Adequately is an antonym for deficiently.

Nearby Words: deficient, deficiency

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