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suf·fi·cient

 (sə-fĭsh′ənt)
adj.
1. Being as much as is needed; adequate; enough.
2. Archaic Competent; qualified.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sufficiēns, sufficient-, present participle of sufficere, to suffice; see suffice.]

suf·fi′cient·ly adv.
Synonyms: sufficient, acceptable, adequate, enough, satisfactory
These adjectives mean being what is needed without being in excess: has sufficient income to retire comfortably; made acceptable grades; put in an adequate supply of wood; drew enough water to fill the tub; offered a satisfactory sum for the property.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adv.1.sufficiently - to a sufficient degree; "she was sufficiently fluent in Mandarin"
insufficiently - to an insufficient degree; "he was insufficiently prepared"
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Translations
بصورةٍ كافِيَه
dostatečně
sufiĉe
nægilega
dostatočne
yeter derecede

sufficiently

[səˈfɪʃəntlɪ] ADV
1. (before adjective, adverb) → (lo) suficientemente, (lo) bastante
sufficiently large/high to do sth(lo) suficientemente or (lo) bastante grande/alto (como) para hacer algo
2. (after verb) → lo suficiente
I think he has been punished sufficientlycreo que ya lo han castigado lo suficiente
he had recovered sufficiently to get out of bedse había recuperado lo suficiente como para levantarse de la cama
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

sufficiently

[səˈfɪʃəntli] advsuffisamment
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

sufficiently

advgenug; sufficiently good/warm etcgut/warm etc genug pred, → genügend or ausreichend gut/warm etc; a sufficiently large numbereine ausreichend große Anzahl
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

sufficiently

[səˈfɪʃntlɪ] advsufficientemente, abbastanza
sufficiently large (quantity) → sufficiente (number) → abbastanza grande
she is sufficiently intelligent to understand → è abbastanza or sufficientemente intelligente per capire
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

suffice

(səˈfais) verb
to be enough for a purpose or person. Will $10 suffice (you) till Monday?
sufficient adjective
enough. We haven't sufficient food to feed all these people; Will $10 be sufficient for your needs?
sufˈficiency noun
sufˈficiently adverb
suffice it to say
I need only say.
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References in classic literature ?
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For as the Apostle saith of godliness, Having a show of godliness, but denying the power thereof; so certainly there are, in point of wisdom and sufficiently, that do nothing or little very solemnly: magno conatu nugas.
One morning as Don Quixote went out for a stroll along the beach, arrayed in full armour (for, as he often said, that was "his only gear, his only rest the fray," and he never was without it for a moment), he saw coming towards him a knight, also in full armour, with a shining moon painted on his shield, who, on approaching sufficiently near to be heard, said in a loud voice, addressing himself to Don Quixote, "Illustrious knight, and never sufficiently extolled Don Quixote of La Mancha, I am the Knight of the White Moon, whose unheard-of achievements will perhaps have recalled him to thy memory.
THE effects of Union upon the commercial prosperity of the States have been sufficiently delineated.
Paris has been sufficiently punished; enough blood has flowed, enough misery has humbled a town deprived of its king and of justice.
This was to make two light sleds, place the packs on them, and drag them to the other side of the mountain, thus forming a road in the wet snow, which, should it afterward freeze, would be sufficiently hard to bear the horses.
Eliot, at the close of his Indian Grammar, mentions him as "a pregnant-witted young man, who had been a servant in an English house, who pretty well understood his own language, and had a clear pronunciation." He took this Indian into his family, and by constant intercourse with him soon become sufficiently conversant with the vocabulary and construction of the language to translate the ten commandments, the Lord's prayer, and several passages of Scripture, besides composing exhortations and prayers.
And if they do not sufficiently enlarge their policy to embrace the collective welfare of their particular State, how can it be imagined that they will make the aggregate prosperity of the Union, and the dignity and respectability of its government, the objects of their affections and consultations?
He was not sufficiently guilty to suffer death, but he was too much so to be set at liberty.
When different people see what they call the same table, they see things which are not exactly the same, owing to difference of point of view, but which are sufficiently alike to be described in the same words, so long as no great accuracy or minuteness is sought.
"My children," said the Oldest and Wisest Ape in All the World, when he had heard the Deputation, "you did right in ridding yourselves of tyranny, but your tribe is not sufficiently advanced to dispense with the forms of monarchy.
Those who are sufficiently interested to desire to read his own detailed account of the society he would fain establish, will find an excellent passage in Aphorism 57 of "The Antichrist".