Reverse Dictionary: INADEQUATE

ADJECTIVES
► C-3 third-rate, inadequate, inferior; highly unfit → 1910s sl.
► CHICKEN-CRAP insufficient, inadequate, of poor quality → 1940s sl., orig. US
► CHICKENSHIT insufficient, inadequate, of poor quality → 1940s sl., orig. US
► DAY LATE AND A DIME SHORT, A inadequate; overdue and lacking; too little too late → 1990s Amer. sl.
► DAY LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT, A inadequate; overdue and lacking; too little too late → 1990s Amer. sl.
► HALF-ARSE ► HALF-ASS careless, inadequate, incompetent, second-rate → M19 sl.
► HALF-ARSED ► HALF-ASSED careless, inadequate, inferior, unsatisfactory, ineffectual, incompetent, second-rate → 1865 US sl.
► HALF-BAKED incompetent, inadequate, below standard → E16
► MAIL-ORDER ridiculously inadequate or inferior → 1923 Amer. sl.
► OF SORTS undistinguished, second-rate, barely adequate → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► ONE-EYED of a place or object: inferior, inadequate, unimportant → 1865 sl., orig. US
► ONE-LEGGED second-rate, inadequate → 1929 US sl.
► POKEY of an enclosed space: small and dark; inadequate → 1849 UK sl.
► SKITTLING poor; inadequate → 1959 Amer. dial.
► UNADEQUATE inadequate → 1644 obs.

ADVERBS
► RAWLY inadequately → 19C Eng. dial.

NOUNS
► BROKEN STICK something unreliable, undependable, or inadequate → 1946 Amer. dial.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BROKEN STICK somebody unreliable, undependable, or inadequate → 1946 Amer. dial.
► GIMPY a person who is inadequate in some way → 1968 US sl.
► GUY an incompetent person, one who is inadequate → 1980s US students’ sl.
► HACK an incompetent person; an inadequate → 1958 sl.
► HALF-BAKE a fool, an inadequate person → 1943 UK sl. 
► MESS-UP an inadequate or incompetent person; a person with problems → 1944 sl. 
► NEWT a stupid, unsophisticated or socially inadequate person → 1920s US studens’ sl.
► SADDO a socially inadequate, unfashionable, or otherwise contemptible person → 1992 sl.
► VARNISH a second-rate person, one who is inadequate → 1902 UK society usage 

PHRASES
► THAT ONE IS A HURTBURGER that one is bad or inadequate → 1970 US students’ sl. (Bk.)

VERBS
► CATCH AT A STRAW ► CATCH AT STRAWS to resort in desperation to any utterly inadequate expedient, like a person drowning 
► CLUTCH AT STRAWS to resort in desperation to any utterly inadequate expedient, like a person drowning 
► DOG to contribute an inadequate performance; to give less than the best →1970 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► FLUNK to do a skimpy, inadequate job → L19 sl., orig. US