副词,意为"不充分地;不够好地;不适当地"。表示某事做得不够好、不够完善,或未能达到所需的标准。
The project was inadequately funded, so it had to be canceled halfway through.
这个项目资金不足,因此不得不中途取消。
Despite years of training, she felt she had been inadequately prepared for the emotional demands of working as a nurse in a war zone.
尽管经过多年训练,她觉得自己在情感上并没有为在战区担任护士的工作做好充分准备。
由形容词 inadequate 加副词后缀 -ly 构成。inadequate 来自拉丁语前缀 in-(表示"不、非")和 adaequatus(adaequare 的过去分词,意为"使相等、使匹配"),其中 ad- 意为"朝向",aequus 意为"平等的"。整个词的核心含义就是"未能达到与要求相等的程度"。