This is unhelpful quibbling over the semantics of one word. You know what I meant. Everyone knows what I meant. I even explained in more detail what I meant. You're also wrong about the word, but I'm not going to bother arguing that here.

Please refrain from writing "this meat smells funny" comments on HN. You could go around commenting on typos too, which happen all the time, but that's not at all helpful.

Definition of 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.