sufficient
sufficient
Definition
suf·fi·cient (-ənt)
adjective
- as much as is needed; equal to what is specified or required; enough
- competent; well-qualified; able
Etymology: ME < L sufficiens, prp. of sufficere: see suffice
suf·fi′·ciently adverb
sufficient
Synonyms
sufficient
Usage Examples
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- become: However, in 1919 it was increasingly felt that the club should become self sufficient.
Modifies a noun
- quantity: The Reports stated anthrax does not exist in sufficient quantities to be harmful.
- evidence: To be charitable there needs to be sufficient evidence of the efficacy of the method to be used.
- fund: Revenue is forecast to provide sufficient funds for further improvements in the future.
- flexibility: It is advisable, wherever possible, to allow individual employees sufficient flexibility for them to organize their own work as much as possible.
- capacity: There must be sufficient capacity in the right places to give everyone an equal opportunity to choose.
- justification: The Director of Quality and Standards shall decide whether there is sufficient justification in the case for presentation to an Appeals Panel.
Modifying Another Word
- barely: However the colleges, and the ecumenical courses also, have barely sufficient students to create viable United Reformed Church student cohorts.
- quite: On the whole, younger students who can stay for three or four weeks or more find that 15 hours is quite sufficient.
- usually: These consist of heaps of loose soil, usually sufficient in volume to fill a 5 liter bucket.
Infinitive complement
- justify: Whether the extra link functionality of XLink is sufficient to justify widespread adoption is still a matter of debate.
- satisfy: Oric has found that it has not produced sufficient to satisfy expected demand.
- enable: This has been achieved due to a ' surge ' sufficient to enable capital to break free of the gravitational pull of the state.
- induce: One close encounter of this sort is usually sufficient to induce sensitivity.
- meet: Environmental legislation is not sufficient to meet sustainability targets so to achieve them, economic activities must take better account of environmental objectives.
- prevent: At this stage simply bringing the account ' up to date ' will not be sufficient to prevent legal action being taken against you.
Used with adjective complement
- consider: A team sheet will not be considered sufficient to comply with this Rule, other than in a Reserve Section fixture.
- seem: Even such thoroughly immoral cultures as that of white slaveholders would seem sufficient to ground the sorts of national partiality she defends.
Preposition: in
- quantity: These were sufficient in quantity and nature to require the holding of a Local Inquiry.
Preposition: for
- purpose: Log file analysis is not sufficient for this purpose.
sufficient Quotes
Whose fault? Whose but his own? Ingrate, he had of me All he could have; I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
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