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Webster 1913 Edition
Sufficiently
Suf-fi′cient-ly
,adv.
To a sufficient degree; to a degree that answers the purpose, or gives content; enough;
as, we are
. sufficiently
supplied with food; a man sufficiently
qualified for the discharge of his official dutiesWebster 1828 Edition
Sufficiently
SUFFI'CIENTLY
,adv.
Definition 2024
sufficiently
sufficiently
English
Adverb
sufficiently (comparative more sufficiently, superlative most sufficiently)
- (manner) In a sufficient manner; enough.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:
- 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.
- Once we had eaten and drunk sufficiently, we padded off to sleep.
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- (degree) To a sufficient extent.
- We wanted to build a tepee, but we couldn't find sufficiently long sticks.
Translations
in a sufficient manner
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to a sufficient extent
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