sufficiently

Adverb

Meaning

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 duties.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

rather enough sufficient fairly properly adequate adequately duly acceptably amply copiously relatively suitably fittingly tolerably

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Antonyms

insufficiently commonly poorly badly barely incorrectly

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Phrases with the word

sufficiently motivated human sufficiently motivated man sufficiently motivated person rainfall made sufficiently acidic sufficiently well sufficiently good

Examples

Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic. Arthur C. Clarke

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. Michel de Montaigne

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme. Henry James

I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets. Mary McCarthy

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. Paul Valéry

Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally or their sublime form particularly. Pitirim Sorokin

Close letter words and terms

sufficient stat sufficientarian sufficientarianism sufficiently good sufficiently motivated human sufficiently motivated man