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Basic vs. Adequate — What's the Difference?

Basic vs. Adequate — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Basic and Adequate

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Basic

A widely used programming language that is designed to be easy to learn.

Adequate

Satisfactory or acceptable in quality or quantity
Adequate resources and funding
This office is perfectly adequate for my needs

Basic

An essential, fundamental element or entity
The basics of math.

Adequate

Sufficient to satisfy a requirement or meet a need.

Basic

Basic training.
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Adequate

Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.
Powers adequate to a great work
An adequate definition

Basic

Of, relating to, or forming a base; fundamental
“Basic changes in public opinion often occur because of shifts in concerns and priorities” (Atlantic).

Adequate

A sufficient amount of; enough.
We have adequate money for the journey.

Basic

Of, being, or serving as a starting point or basis
A basic course in Russian.
A set of basic woodworking tools.

Adequate

(obsolete) To equalize; to make adequate.

Basic

Of or relating to a base.

Adequate

(obsolete) To equal.

Basic

Containing a base, especially in excess of acid.

Adequate

Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition.
Ireland had no adequate champion.

Basic

Alkaline.

Adequate

To equalize; to make adequate.

Basic

(Geology) Containing little silica, as certain igneous rocks.

Adequate

To equal.
It [is] an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity.

Basic

(Slang) Unthinkingly or blandly conformist
“Even someone who looks really indie … can be basic if they are simply imitating others rather than thinking for themselves” (Chelsea Rickling).

Adequate

(sometimes followed by `to') meeting the requirements especially of a task;
She had adequate training
Her training was adequate
She was adequate to the job

Basic

Necessary, essential for life or some process.
Flour is a basic ingredient of bread.

Adequate

Enough to meet a purpose;
An adequate income
The food was adequate
A decent wage
Enough food
Food enough

Basic

Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.
The Hotel Sparta’s accommodation is very basic.

Adequate

About average; acceptable;
More than adequate as a secretary

Basic

(chemistry) Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.

Basic

(slang) Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.

Basic

A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
Rice is a basic for many Asian villagers.

Basic

An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
Arithmetic is a basic for the study of mathematics.
I know the basics of sailing and would love to learn more.

Basic

(military) Basic training.
The drill sergeants gave him hell in basic.

Basic

Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.

Basic

Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.

Basic

An artificial computer language with a relatively simplified instruction set.

Basic

A popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use

Basic

(usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant

Basic

Pertaining to or constituting a base or basis;
A basic fact
The basic ingredients
Basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities

Basic

Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality;
A basic story line
A canonical syllable pattern

Basic

Of primary importance;
Basic truths

Basic

Serving as a base or starting point;
A basic course in Russian
Basic training for raw recruits
A set of basic tools
An introductory art course

Basic

Of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base

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