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sufficient

  • determiner
  • suf·fi·cient
  • /səˈfɪʃənt/

An adequate quantity of; enough.

Other meanings

  1. A quantity (of something) that is as large as is needed.

    “We don't need any more; we already have sufficient.”

Related words

  • haplosufficient
  • immunosufficient
  • lymphosufficient
  • omnisufficient
  • oversufficient
  • sufficientarian
  • sufficientness
  • supersufficient
  • principle of sufficient reason
  • sufficient condition

Example sentences

  • “Awareness is necessary but not sufficient.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

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This definition is adapted from “sufficient” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.