(a.) Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions, representations, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
(2) Treatment for diabetic neuropathy remains inadequate.
(3) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
(4) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
(5) Pure bile gave 32 correct diagnoses (67%) and 14 diagnoses of inadequate material (29%), which contained few nondegenerated cells and made microscopic diagnosis unreliable.
(6) Correlations between measures of learning style and academic performance yielded low, nonsignificant positive correlations and were found to be inadequate predictors of academic performance.
(7) Furthermore, a single initial field may constitute an inadequate baseline for clinical follow-up.
(8) The selected students had normal intellectual capacity but often showed inadequate progress in school, attentive-mnemonic deficiencies, and psychopathological elements of a depressive nature.
(9) Given the liberalist context in which we live, this paper argues that an act-oriented ethics is inadequate and that only a virtue-oriented ethics enables us to recognize and resolve the new problems ahead of us in genetic manipulation.
(10) These results suggest that the Eco RI site in the flanking region of the 21-hydroxylase gene may be modified in adrenal cancer tissue, and that inadequate 21-hydroxylase is present in some forms of adrenal cancers.
(11) This has stemmed from an inadequate understanding of the mechanisms involved in the formation and propagation of this condition.
(12) Following the surgery, one patient continued to exhibit PLEDs but clinical seizures were absent PLEDs recurred in the second patient due to inadequate anticonvulsant medication.
(13) The relatively high HI titres observed, particularly in adults, imply that antigenic restimulation of antibody against measles occurs and thus that coverage by immunization remains inadequate.
(14) Poor workplace health and safety, inadequate toilet facilities and dangerous fumes from mosquito fogging that led to one asylum seeker with asthma collapsing were all raised as concerns by Kilburn, although he stressed that he believed G4S management and expatriate G4S staff acted appropriately.
(15) Glucose utilization and lactate production were inadequate with respect to the immature cell population.
(16) The identifiable causes of child drowning are absence of a safety barrier or fence around the water hazard, non-supervision of a child, a parental "vulnerable period", an inadequate safety barrier, and tempting objects in or on the water.
(17) There was inadequate evidence to indicate that the higher risk of neuropsychiatric disability for painters might have been due to their occupational exposure to organic solvents.
(18) The objective of this investigation was to determine the frequency of and predictors for inadequate barium enemas in the frail elderly.
(19) No difference was found in the extent of infarct size, occurrence of heart failure, arrhythmias, and mortality when comparing the adequately with the inadequately controlled diabetics during a hospitalization period of 11 days.
(20) Six patients had a partial, but inadequate response, while four did not respond.
Meagre
Definition:
(a.) Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.
(a.) Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery.
(a.) Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.
(v. t.) To make lean.
(n.) A large European sciaenoid fish (Sciaena umbra or S. aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has so far returned a mere $6m (£3.6m) of its relatively meagre $28m (£17.1m) budget, according to Forbes, a percentage of just 21%.
(2) Those who have escaped form a growing underclass of refugees on the Thai border, where they eke out a meagre living and face deportation at any time.
(3) As low interest rates erode the value of people's hard-earned savings, I would also like to see the chancellor allowing higher ISA limits, so that at least any meagre interest people do earn on their savings will not be taxed as well.
(4) With the eurozone unravelling and world markets in turmoil, threatening even the meagre recovery the UK economy had achieved since the onset of the credit crunch, he repeatedly evokes a mood of national emergency to explain why the coalition he forged with David Cameron is the right government for the times.
(5) The more you tour, the less your subsidy per seat.” That leads to lengthier tours, which keep actors away from their families for meagre weekly wages.
(6) Our own data and the meagre results of other studies support the supposition that it is not the absolute time-lapse which has prognostic significance but the qualified medical assistance provided within a critical, individual, but extremely variable time-span.
(7) Rats dying acutely of experimental auto-immune encephalomyelitis show very meagre histological signs of the disease in routine histology sections.
(8) Clinical benefits have so far been meagre but this is not surprising in view of the poor design of many of the trials and the large tumour burden in many of the patients.
(9) who was thinking about voting yes, and went on to reduce her political predicament to her meagre wage packet.
(10) Only by being filled out with private savings and pensions – whose value is also depressed by low bank rates – does a meagre state pension provide anything close to a tolerable retirement.
(11) These preliminary results are compared with those available in the relatively meagre literature.
(12) For the 600 hostages snacking on biscuits and chocolate, there is no sleep, no beds, no hot food, no hot drinks, no toilet paper, no washing facilities, a meagre supply of medicines - and, apparently, a deepening bond between the hostage takers and their victims.
(13) BBC1's National Lottery Draws followed Robin Hood with a meagre 1.6 million viewers and a 7% share over 10 minutes from 8.10pm.
(14) It may seem curmudgeonly to sprinkle our meagre daily measure of praise upon the negation of something: the fact that a plan is not going ahead.
(15) Whatever meagre income they earn can be the difference between going hungry and not, between surviving and not.
(16) Oxford’s Stranded Assets Programme report concluded that “divestment outflows, even when relatively meagre in the first wave of divestment, can significantly and permanently depress stock price of a target firm if they trigger a change in market norms”.
(17) His scholarship, no doubt, was meagre but he could read Greek with the help of a dictionary and a crib and he loved it - that may astonish.
(18) The ministry figures show exports to all regions falling, apart from a meagre 0.4% year-on-year gain in shipments to North America.
(19) The decision by the Equalities Commission to challenge the party's racist membership rules occupied too much of his attention, and drained the party's meagre resources.
(20) While the disease is age-related, more common in married than in single men and family-orientated, knowledge of specific aetiological factors is meagre.