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Pronunciation

• /səˈfɪʃəntli/
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Etymology

Etymology tree English sufficient Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English sufficiently From sufficient + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a sufficient manner; enough.
   • Once we had eaten and drunk sufficiently, we went to bed.
   • Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes. 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
   • I prefer to think that birds have a sufficiently developed sense of humour to enjoy the spectacle of a human being hunched beneath a bush kissing the back of their hand. 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 112:
2. (qualifier:degree) To a sufficient extent.
   • Alternatively, one could hope that Californication works: that large numbers of people of immensely diverse racial, ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds really can mix and blend while yet retaining a sufficiently common civic culture for America to survive as a free, democratic and self-confident nation. 2003 August 14, Timothy Garton Ash, “God's crucible”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2021:
   • Attempts by Waterloo signalmen to clear the points by power operation eventually exhausted point motor batteries, which are fed by trickle chargers, and a blown fuse accentuated the problem; thus, even when the points had been cleared of ice, no power was available to operate them until the batteries were sufficiently recharged. 1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 159:
   • There are those who value a seat sufficiently highly that they prefer to make their daily journeys by the Western Region Vine Street line. 1952 March, R. K. Kirkland, “The Railways of Uxbridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:
   • We wanted to build a tepee, but we couldn't find sufficiently long sticks.

Forms

Deriveds

self-sufficiently · insufficiently

Translations (47)

izh ohto (to a sufficient extent) · la sufficienter (in a sufficient manner) · fr suffisamment (to a sufficient extent) · ru доста́точно (in a sufficient manner) · izh ohto (in a sufficient manner) · sq mjaft (to a sufficient extent) · fi kylliksi (in a sufficient manner) · mk доволно (to a sufficient extent) · es suficientemente (to a sufficient extent) · fi tarpeeksi (to a sufficient extent) · it sufficientemente (in a sufficient manner) · bg дово́лно (to a sufficient extent) · fr suffisamment (in a sufficient manner) · ja 十分 (in a sufficient manner) · ro destul (in a sufficient manner) · izh kylläst (to a sufficient extent) · tr yeterince (in a sufficient manner) · io suficante (in a sufficient manner) · izh kylläst (in a sufficient manner) · mk достатно (to a sufficient extent) · fi riittävästi (in a sufficient manner) · sq mjaft (in a sufficient manner) · de genug (in a sufficient manner) · fi kyllin (to a sufficient extent) · mk достатно (in a sufficient manner) · cs dostatečně (in a sufficient manner) · zdj kiasi (in a sufficient manner) · rgn abastânza (in a sufficient manner) · es suficientemente (in a sufficient manner) · mk доволно (in a sufficient manner) · sv tillräckligt (to a sufficient extent) · pl wystarczająco (in a sufficient manner) · bg достатъчно (in a sufficient manner) · ca suficientment (in a sufficient manner) · de ausreichend (in a sufficient manner) · sv tillräckligt (in a sufficient manner) · pt suficientemente (to a sufficient extent) · eo sufiĉe (in a sufficient manner) · el επαρκώς (in a sufficient manner) · fi tarpeeksi (in a sufficient manner) · la affatim (in a sufficient manner) · ja 十分に (in a sufficient manner) · la sufficienter (to a sufficient extent) · fi riittävän (to a sufficient extent) · bg доста́тъчно (to a sufficient extent) · ro suficient (in a sufficient manner) · pt suficientemente (in a sufficient manner)