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Word definitions for sufficient in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., from Old French soficient "satisfactory," or directly from Latin sufficientem (nominative sufficiens ) "adequate," present participle of sufficere "to supply as a substitute" (see suffice ).

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; enough; ample; competent; as, 2 Possessing adequate talents or accomplishments; of competent power or ability; qualified; fit. 3 (context archaic English) Capable of meeting obligations; responsible. 4 ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a sufficient quantity (= enough ) ▪ How did they obtain sufficient quantities of food to survive? enough/sufficient courage ▪ Harry plucked up enough courage to ask her out. enough/sufficient detail ▪ The party ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sufficient \Suf*fi"cient\, a. [L. sufficiens, -entis, p. pr. of sufficere: cf. F. suffisant. See Suffice .] Equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; enough; ample; competent; as, provision sufficient for the family; an army sufficient to defend the ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant; "sufficient food" [ant: insufficient ]

Usage examples of sufficient.

That would require leaving sufficient men aboard to subdue the prisoners, which in turn made any future action more hazardous.

This illustration is not intended to apply to the older bridges with widely distended masses, which render each pier sufficient to abut the arches springing from it, but tend, in providing for a way over the river, to choke up the way by the river itself, or to compel the river either to throw down the structure or else to destroy its own banks.

With the acquisition of a superfluous waste of fertile soil, the conquerors obtained the command of a naval force, sufficient to transport their armies to the coast of Asia.

It was possible that they had sufficient acreage of their own to offer to Stephens Industries.

Under these circumstances, his grace moved that the debate be adjourned, as the house had not sufficient notice of the contents of the bill, and as the title of it did not state anything respecting the precedence of the prince.

On the proof of the fact, instead of granting, like an ordinary judge, sufficient or ample damages to the plaintiff, the sovereign adjudged to her use and benefit the palace and the ground.

Though you cannot want sufficient calls to repentance for the many unwarrantable weaknesses exemplified in your behaviour to this wretch, so much to the prejudice of your own lawful family, and of your character, I say, though these may sufficiently be supposed to prick and goad your conscience at this season, I should yet be wanting to my duty, if I spared to give you some admonition in order to bring you to a due sense of your errors.

To collect, to dispose, and to adorn a series of fourscore years, in an immortal work, every sentence of which is pregnant with the deepest observations and the most lively images, was an undertaking sufficient to exercise the genius of Tacitus himself during the greatest part of his life.

It may be sufficient to observe, that whatever could adorn the dignity of a great capital, or contribute to the benefit or pleasure of its numerous inhabitants, was contained within the walls of Constantinople.

The squatter leased it on easy terms, and bought it only when it had sufficient value to be desired by agriculturists or by selectors who posed as agriculturists.

One day was regarded as quite sufficient to record an album in those days.

That the urea, which was not perfectly white, should have contained a sufficient quantity of albuminous matter, or of some salt of ammonia, to have caused the above effect, is far from surprising, for, as we shall see in the next chapter, astonishingly small doses of ammonia are highly efficient.

Dempsey, conceded a similar allegation to be correct but did not deem it sufficient to render the trial a nullity.

In my letter to your company I stated that I could supply a sufficient quantity of alumite for whatever tests might be demanded.

I fell in her arms, our lips fastened together, and, in a voluptuous, ardent pressure, we enjoyed an amorous exhaustion not sufficient to allay our desires, but delightful enough to deceive them for the moment.