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After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.
Simon Le Bon

Meaning of "inadequacy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INADEQUACY

inadequacy  [ɪnˈædɪkwəsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INADEQUACY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Inadequacy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INADEQUACY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of inadequacy in the English dictionary

The definition of inadequacy in the dictionary is the quality of not being adequate; insufficiency. Other definition of inadequacy is the quality of not being capable or competent.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INADEQUACY


accuracy
ˈækjʊrəsɪ
adequacy
ˈædɪkwəsɪ
advocacy
ˈædvəkəsɪ
conspiracy
kənˈspɪrəsɪ
democracy
dɪˈmɒkrəsɪ
diplomacy
dɪˈpləʊməsɪ
ecstasy
ˈɛkstəsɪ
efficacy
ˈɛfɪkəsɪ
embassy
ˈɛmbəsɪ
fantasy
ˈfæntəsɪ
hypocrisy
hɪˈpɒkrəsɪ
intimacy
ˈɪntɪməsɪ
jealousy
ˈdʒɛləsɪ
legacy
ˈlɛɡəsɪ
literacy
ˈlɪtərəsɪ
pharmacy
ˈfɑːməsɪ
piracy
ˈpaɪrəsɪ
privacy
ˈpraɪvəsɪ
supremacy
sʊˈprɛməsɪ
Varanasi
vəˈrɑːnəsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INADEQUACY

inactively
inactiveness
inactivity
inadaptable
inadaptation
inadaptive
inadequate
inadequately
inadequateness
inadmissibility
inadmissible
inadmissibly
inadvertence
inadvertency
inadvertent
inadvertently
inadvisability
inadvisable
inadvisableness
inadvisably

WORDS THAT END LIKE INADEQUACY

aristocracy
candidacy
confederacy
curacy
delicacy
fallacy
illegitimacy
illiteracy
immediacy
inaccuracy
indeterminacy
lacy
legitimacy
lunacy
numeracy
plutocracy
primacy
racy
technocracy
Tracy

Synonyms and antonyms of inadequacy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INADEQUACY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «inadequacy» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of inadequacy

Translation of «inadequacy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INADEQUACY

Find out the translation of inadequacy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of inadequacy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «inadequacy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不足
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

insuficiencia
570 millions of speakers

English

inadequacy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अपर्याप्तता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عدم كفاية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неадекватность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

impropriedade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অপ্রাচুর্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

insuffisance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kekurangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unzulänglichkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不足
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

불충분함
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Inadequacy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không đầy đủ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போதாமை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अपुरेपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yetersizlik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

insufficienza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieadekwatność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

неадекватність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

inadecvare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανεπάρκεια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ontoereikendheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

otillräcklighet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

utilstrekkelighet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of inadequacy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INADEQUACY»

The term «inadequacy» is quite widely used and occupies the 46.159 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INADEQUACY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «inadequacy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «inadequacy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about inadequacy

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8 QUOTES WITH «INADEQUACY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word inadequacy.
1
Simon Le Bon
After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.
2
Eleanor Catton
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.
3
Mary Daly
'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
4
Marian Wright Edelman
I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.
5
Alicia Keys
There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there's a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you're not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.
6
Ken Thompson
It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.
7
Emma Watson
It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's going to find out I'm a total fraud, and that I don't deserve any of what I've achieved. I can't possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone's expectations of me are.'
8
Rowan Williams
In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INADEQUACY»

Discover the use of inadequacy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to inadequacy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Journey Through Inadequacy
If you feel inadequate you are not alone. A personal journey from childhood to the twilight years; witness a transformation from inadequacy to fulfillment.
Paul Otke, Paul Otke, 2004
2
Human Sexual Inadequacy
The innovative program described in this book revolutionizes the the treatment of sexual dysfunction.
William H. Masters, Virginia E. Johnson, 2010
3
Adolescent Black Males Living in Poverty: Perceived Sense of ...
Sense of Inadequacy and Attitudes toward School One question this research hoped to answer was the direction and magnitude of the correlation between student self-perceptions (among Black adolescent males) of their sense of inadequacy ...
Guykesha L. Denson-Smith, 2007
4
Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Personality and ...
The Internalizing composite consists of the remaining six scales (i.e., Atypicality, Locus of Control, Social Stress, Anxiety, Depression, and Sense of Inadequacy) The ESI represents the scores for the six scales with the highest loadings on an ...
Paul J. Frick, Christopher T. Barry, Randy W. Kamphaus, 2009
5
Research: Successful Approaches
However,under some assumptions,and with knowledge about the distribution of requirements in the group and the distribution of usual intakes in the same group, it is possible to obtain an estimate of the prevalence of inadequacy.
‎2008
6
Movement and Effects of Spilled Oil Over the Outer ...
Movement and Effects of Spilled Oil Over the Outer Continental Shelf — Inadequacy of Existent Data For the Baltimore Canyon Trough Area By H. J. Knebel GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 702 United States Department of the Interior ...
Harley J. Knebel, 1974
7
Living with Your Heart Wide Open: How Mindfulness and ...
Based in Western psychotherapy and Buddhist psychological principles, this book guides you past painful and self-limiting beliefs about yourself and toward a new perspective of nonjudgmental awareness and acceptance of who you are, just as ...
Steve Flowers, Bob Stahl, 2011
8
Visual Space Perception: A Primer
Stimulus. Inadequacy: The. Fundamental. Problem. of. Monocular. Perception. As in binocular space perception, the distal-proximal relationships involved in monocular space perception are described by geometrical optics. Nevertheless, the ...
Maurice Hershenson, 1999
9
Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease
For iron, a full probability approach was used to estimate the prevalence of inadequacy because the requirements are not normally distributed. For nutrients with an AI (calcium and fiber), the prevalence of inadequacy is assumed to be low if ...
Ann M. Coulston, Carol Boushey, 2008
10
Food Security in the Russian Federation
There are two principal schools of thought on how to measure food inadequacy and undernutrition on the national level.12 The first is to use statistics on food availability (based on commodity balances) or consumption (based on household ...
David J. Sedik, Sergeĭ Sotnikov, Doris Wiesmann, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INADEQUACY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term inadequacy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Huddersfield writer Cath Day pens Ukip! The Musical - Huddersfield …
Tormented by feelings of impotence and inadequacy, he just doesn't know how to rescue Britain from Europe's clutches. However, following a ... «Huddersfield Examiner, Jul 15»
2
Premier League sponsors targeted by peer over disabled access …
The league argues that Faulkner's bill is misguided, because the safety of grounds is not currently compromised by the inadequacy of some ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
Financial frauds lethal parasites to economy: Jayant Sinha - The …
He said the laxity in post-disbursement supervision and inadequacy of follow up of advances portfolio by banks is clearly underlined by the fact ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»
4
PM - Fire-fighter points to poverty as reason for people using … - ABC
JOHN FALZON: From our perspective, one of the major drivers of energy exclusion is the inadequacy of income for the households that are ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»
5
Despite educators' frustration, little chance legislature will increase …
The perceived inadequacy of teacher salaries is a lynchpin of the legal challenges to the state. Before making any changes, representatives ... «Chalkbeat Indiana, Jul 15»
6
Trackageddon: DiS does Singles is Dead, Insert Coin(s) to Continue …
... babe” he croons alongside Lucy Rose, a brutally honest put down that's been perfected by Generation Me to deflect feelings of inadequacy. «Drowned In Sound, Jul 15»
7
Turning Pages: Why it's time to give Arthur Upfield another crack of …
... of Biography, they created "a worm's eye view of awesome natural grandeur, a sense of human inadequacy in a dominating continent". «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
8
Take Third Eye Blind As Seriously As They Take Themselves
... a relationship to another and depicting the aggressive form of inadequacy that flows between two people otherwise committed to each other: ... «Deadspin, Jul 15»
9
4 Warning Signs You Have an Unhealthy Relationship With Money …
However, normal does not equal healthy. Indeed, overspending is a symptom of a more profound issue: a generalized sense of inadequacy. «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
10
How lawyers can avoid burnout and debilitating anxiety
Anxiety and depression can profoundly affect our daily ability to function, including irritability, obsessive thoughts, feelings of inadequacy, ... «Lexology, Jul 15»

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