How to pronounce adequate

1 : sufficient for a specific need or requirement adequate time an amount of money adequate to supply their needs also : good enough : of a quality that is good or acceptable a machine that does an adequate job : of a quality that is acceptable but not better than acceptable Her first performance was merely adequate.

Article content. Before everyone clinks champagne glasses heralding the new decade, let’s get one thing clear about 2020: the only correct way to say it is twenty-twenty, not two thousand and twenty. In fact, to all you miscreants who say two thousand and twenty, make it your New Year resolution to not.