Sufficient Definition

sə-fĭshənt
adjective
As much as is needed; equal to what is specified or required; enough.
Webster's New World
Competent; well-qualified; able.
Webster's New World

Possessing adequate talents or accomplishments; of competent power or ability; qualified; fit.

A two-week training course is sufficient to get a job in the coach-driving profession.
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(archaic) Capable of meeting obligations; responsible.

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Self-sufficient; self-satisfied; content.

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determiner
The smallest amount needed.
Sufficient of us are against this idea that we should stop now.
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Origin of Sufficient

  • Middle English from Old French from Latin sufficiēns sufficient- present participle of sufficere to suffice suffice

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French sufisanz, soficient, from Latin sufficiēns, present participle of sufficiō.

    From Wiktionary

Sufficient Sentence Examples

  • There is commonly sufficient space about us.

  • One reading was sufficient to stamp every detail of the story upon my memory forever.

  • If she was ever going to learn to be totally self sufficient, she was going to have to take control of her life.

  • While he possessed sufficient strength to pull away, he was fearful of hurting her, and even more so, of her crying out.

  • On a sufficient acquaintance with the work this would probably have revealed the essential nature of the instrument to a hearer unacquainted with technicalities, and revealed it rather as a characteristic than as a limitation.

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