merely adequate
Frequency: 4.01.9 per million words
only sufficient and nothing more; implying a lack of excellence
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Examples (10)
- His performance this quarter was considered merely adequate, showing no real initiative.
- The report met the basic requirements, but its analysis was merely adequate.
- For a five-star hotel, the room service was merely adequate and quite disappointing.
- The safety precautions in place were judged to be merely adequate by the inspectors.
- A solution that is merely adequate today will likely be insufficient tomorrow.
- The translation was merely adequate, capturing the literal meaning but losing all the nuance.
- The funding they received was merely adequate to keep the program running for another year.
- While the actors' performances were brilliant, the script itself was merely adequate.
- The level of public transportation in the town is merely adequate for its current population.
- He aimed for excellence, but his final result was merely adequate.