The phrase "adequately understood" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means that something is well comprehended or grasped. Example: The instructions for operating the machinery were not adequately understood by the new employee, resulting in a safety hazard.
If there were certain moral propositions that can be known if adequately understood, then, it is argued, people with an adequate understanding of them would believe them, and there would be universal assent amongst mature, comprehending people.
He decided to give a lecture about it, and why he felt it hadn't been adequately understood.
"Looking" is a cause; just how important it has been to (for the want of a better term) post-colonial writers is probably not adequately understood.
Mr. Zogby instead concentrates on what he sees as tectonic shifts in American attitudes and argues that the importance of these changes has not been adequately understood.
He could be called on to aid in almost any problem that was either not adequately understood or not amenable to correction by ordinary means.
However, as the executive director of Feministing.com, I want to underscore that complaints about lost venues and critical Tumblr posts cannot be adequately understood without hearing from a category of people at the center of the conflict, whose identity is systemically denied.
This action aggravated the debacle to an extent not yet adequately understood.
The impact of trade liberalization on the gender wage gap cannot be adequately understood without examining how female employment has also been affected.
Further, we could know the relevant conditionals a priori even if we were BIVs, provided we adequately understood the concepts involved.
It is evident on Hook's account that the Russian Revolution cannot be adequately understood as an historical transformation that was carried out under inevitable dialectical laws.
