"inadequate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

inadequate adjetivo

inadequate + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 98
inadequate care • inadequate response • inadequate supply • inadequate training • inadequate resource • ...
verbo + inadequate
Kolokacji: 7
prove inadequate • feel inadequate • consider inadequate • deem inadequate • become inadequate • ...
adverbio + inadequate
Kolokacji: 21
woefully inadequate • totally inadequate • grossly inadequate • wholly inadequate • completely inadequate • ...
(1) woefully, sadly, painfully
Kolokacji: 3
(3) pitifully, pathetically
Kolokacji: 2
1. pitifully inadequate = żałośnie niedostateczny pitifully inadequate
  • A short length of rope seemed pitifully inadequate to her, but he had to know a lot more about it than she did.
  • The $30 billion bipartisan package agreed upon by the Congress and President is pitifully inadequate.
  • More and more, he was being made aware that his own views of things were often based on pitifully inadequate information.
  • They were pitifully inadequate, but someone might understand.
  • But the disaster in Rwanda was so great that such precautions were pitifully inadequate.
  • These efforts would seem pitifully inadequate to a modern social reformer.
  • And toy factories with pitifully inadequate fire precautions stay open.
  • It was a pitifully inadequate act of mercy, but he went on nevertheless, choosing the suffering children first.
  • Their equipment was pitifully inadequate for the job they had to do.
  • Funding for the arts in this country is pitifully inadequate.
2. pathetically inadequate = wzruszająco niedostateczny pathetically inadequate
(4) ridiculously, laughably
Kolokacji: 2
inadequate + preposición
Kolokacji: 4
inadequate for • inadequate to • inadequate in • inadequate by

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