suffice

Verb

Meaning

To be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.

To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.

To furnish; to supply adequately.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

do serve answer meet satisfy fulfill be enough be sufficient be adequate work provide enough suit sate supply
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Antonyms

miss ambitious alarm complication craze annoyed
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Hypernyms

satisfy fulfill fulfil live up to

Hyponyms

function serve qualify tide over go around measure up

Related terms

sufficient satisfice

Derivatives

sufficed sufficing

Examples

If the only prayer you say in your whole life is 'thank you,' that would suffice. Meister Eckhart

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. Thomas Babington Macaulay

Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time. A. E. Housman

Few words to the wise suffice. Romanian Proverb

A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds. Chinese Proverb

Nothing can suffice a person except that which they have not. African American Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Suffern sufferner suffete suffice it to say suffice to say sufficed to say