Adequately
Adequately adverb - In a satisfactory way.
Quite and adequately are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Quite" instead the word "Adequately" as an adverb or an adjective.
Quite
Quite adverb - To a full extent or degree.
Adequately and quite are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Adequately" instead the word "Quite" as an adverb or an adjective.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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There are quite literally no words to adequately describe it, as shown in the first chapter when one of the messengers struggles through describing a lake being replaced by nothing.
- Pregnancy causes hunger and energy to deplete at such an acceleration that failure to juggle both adequately is quite likely to prove fatal unless you micromanage like crazy.
Source: Scrappy Mechanic / Thesims - Season 4's cliffhanger is notable for being in danger of never being properly resolved, since for never-quite-adequately-explained reasons, the people behind the show decided to skip season 5 and go from season 4 to season 6 without explanation, ignoring the cliffhanger.
Source: Cliffhanger / Western Animation
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