Difference between Adequate and Appropriate

ADEQUATE vs APPROPRIATE: NOUN

Suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc
Suitable and fitting
Meant or adapted for an occasion or use
Appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness
Being of striking appropriateness and pertinence
Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
Suitable for a particular person, condition, occasion, or place; fitting.

To set apart for a specific use.
To take possession of or make use of exclusively for oneself, often without permission.
To make suitable; to suit.
To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.

Equal to requirement or occasion; commensurate; fully sufficient, suitable, or fit: as, means adequate to the object; an adequate comparison.
Acceptable
About average
To attain equality with; equal.
To make equal or adequate.

Set apart for a particular use or person; hence, belonging peculiarly; suitable; fit; befitting; proper.
Synonyms Apt, becoming, in keeping, felicitous.
To take to one's self in exclusion of others; claim or use as by an exclusive right: as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
In general, to take for any use; put to use.
To set apart for or assign to a particular purpose or use, in exclusion of all other purposes or uses: as, Congress appropriated more money than was needed; to appropriate a spot of ground for a garden.
In ecclesiastical law, to annex, as a benefice, to an ecclesiastical corporation, for its perpetual use.

Ample, Proper, Inadequate, Insufficient, Fair to middling, Equal to, Adequate to, Up to, Capable, Passable, Competent, Decent, Enough, Satisfactory, Sufficient

Allow, Congruous, Right, Fit, Congruent, Befitting, Suited, Apropos, Apt, Advantageous, Pertinent, Apposite, Expedient, Suitable, Proper

Ample, Proper, Inadequate, Insufficient, Fair to middling, Equal to, Adequate to, Up to, Capable, Passable, Competent, Decent, Enough, Satisfactory, Sufficient

Allow, Congruous, Right, Fit, Congruent, Befitting, Suited, Apropos, Apt, Advantageous, Pertinent, Apposite, Expedient, Suitable, Proper

The record is adequate to address these issues.
Commercially adequate access to public streets and ways?
Torres has not proved to be statistically adequate.
ERISA with the lack of adequate fiduciary standards.
Ensuring that adequate internal controls are in place.
Proposed Adequate Assurance of payment for postpetition services, and established procedures for resolving requests for additional adequate assurance of payment.
If it is determined that a BOS is not available at all or is not adequate, the customer should obtain an adequate BOS.
Adequate provision should be made to assemble in adequate quantities expertise that enables the court to respond to multiple protection and assistance needs.
However, the airport already has adequate capacity and will continue to have adequate capacity in the foreseeable future.
Other methods are not adequate and cannot be made adequate.

What is appropriate in Cairns is not necessarily appropriate in Brisbane.
Verbal praise or tangible reinforcement for on task or appropriate behavior It may be appropriate to provide students positive reinforcement during testing.
Ensure parts are ordered with appropriate priorities and relay document numbers to the Pro Super, MOC, and appropriate technicians.
The law determines that firms may consider it appropriate to verify the identity of appropriate beneficial owners.
The appraiser will be better able to take appropriate risk management steps, such as obtaining insurance coverage and retaining appropriate records.
Therefore, Program Managers should be careful to use the appropriate standards within contracts, tailored as appropriate for each system.
EEA to conduct appropriate risk assessments and implement appropriate controls as a regulated financial service provider.
Appropriate actions are taken by SIU and reported to the appropriate authorities.
Adequacy of the organization and appropriate resources assigned to assure appropriate training.
Case Managers should determine the most appropriate course of action in consultation with RO management, Legal and, as appropriate, the appropriate RMAS section.