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10 Language-to-English Dictionariestotalmente inadecuado
Pronunciation / Transliteration: totalˈmente inadeˈkwado
"El equipo suministrado resultó totalmente inadecuado para la tarea."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
So seriously lacking in quality, quantity, or capability as to be pitifully insufficient for a particular purpose.
"The emergency funding provided by the council was woefully inadequate to cope with the disaster." - 2
Exhibiting an extreme degree of incompetence or deficiency relative to expected standards.
"Her preparation for the complex audit proved to be woefully inadequate."
Thesaurus & Semantic Spectrum
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
The term combines 'woefully', derived from Old English 'wāful' (full of woe or sorrow, from 'wā' meaning woe), and 'inadequate', originating from Latin 'inadequatus' (from 'in-' meaning not + 'adequatus', past participle of 'adaequare' to make equal). Historically, 'woefully' shifted from describing sorrow to intensifying negative states, creating a fixed idiomatic collocation by the 19th century denoting a severe and lamentable shortfall.
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totalement insuffisant
Transliteration: totalmɑ̃ ɛ̃syfizɑ̃
"Les ressources actuelles sont totalement insuffisantes pour répondre à la demande."
grottenschlecht
Transliteration: ɡʁɔtənˈʃlɛçt
Script: völlig unzureichend
"Die Sicherheitsvorkehrungen waren völlig unzureichend."
del tutto inadeguato
Transliteration: del tutto inadedwato
"Il personale a disposizione era del tutto inadeguato."
totalmente inadecuado
Transliteration: totalˈmente inadeˈkwado
"El equipo suministrado resultó totalmente inadecuado para la tarea."
totalmente inadequado
Transliteration: toˈtalmẽtʃi inɐdeˈɡwadu
"A resposta do governo foi totalmente inadequada."
अत्यंत अपर्याप्त
Transliteration: atyant aparyāpta
"संकट से निपटने के लिए ये उपाय अत्यंत अपर्याप्त हैं।"
远远不够
Transliteration: yuǎnyuǎn bùgòu
"目前的预算对于长远发展来说是远远不够的。"
터무니없이 부족한
Transliteration: teomuni-eopsi bujokan
"피해 지역에 대한 지원이 터무니없이 부족합니다."
圧倒的に不十分な
Transliteration: attōteki ni fujūbun na
"その対策は危機に対して圧倒的に不十分であった。"
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