Collocations for adequate - adj.

be, prove, seem
remain
consider sth, think sth
These measures are not considered adequate by conservationists.

really, very
perfectly, quite, totally
more than
The system is more than adequate to deal with any problems.

barely, hardly, less than, not entirely, not wholly
The financial assistance given to students is less than adequate.

merely
more or less
The amount of money we have been given is more or less adequate.

no longer

for
The old software is still perfectly adequate for most tasks.

Adequate is used with these nouns:
amount, answer, assessment, compensation, consideration, defence, definition, degree, diet, evidence, exercise, explanation, facility, flow, food, fund, funding, housing, incentive, instruction, insurance, intake, job, justification, level, lighting, margin, nourishment, number, nutrition, pension, precaution, preparation, progress, protection, provision, reason, record, remedy, replacement, representation, reserve, resource, response, rest, return, safeguard, sanitation, service, sleep, space, standard, stock, substitute, supervision, supply, support, training, understanding, ventilation, warning