WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
suf•fi•cient /səˈfɪʃənt/USA pronunciation
adj.
suf•fi•cient•ly, adv.: sufficiently informed about the issues.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- enough for what is needed:There are barely sufficient funds for the project.
suf•fi•cient•ly, adv.: sufficiently informed about the issues.
suf•fi•cient
(sə fish′ənt),USA pronunciation adj.
suf•fi′cient•ly, adv.
- adequate for the purpose;
enough:sufficient proof; sufficient protection. - Philosophy[Logic.](of a condition) such that its existence leads to the occurrence of a given event or the existence of a given thing. Cf. necessary (def. 4c).
- [Archaic.]competent.
- Latin sufficient- (stem of sufficiēns), present participle of sufficere to suffice, equivalent. to suf- suf- + -fici-, present stem of -ficere, combining form of facere to make, do1 + -ent- -ent
- Middle English 1350–1400
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged meager, scant, inadequate.
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- aperiodic
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- approximant
- approximation
- ball
- camel
- combat-ready
- come
- comparison
- competitive
- decent
- deckle
- done
- double-breasted
- echelon
- enough
- fine
- fully
- geographic range
- green
- high-power
- hot
- hull
- killer application
- lapidary
- leader
- leather-hard
- limit
- line of sight
- liquate
- martensite
- milldam
- nastic
- nation
- newsworthy
- nice
- optimum population
- overdue
- phosphorite
- photoelectric effect
- point source
- popular song
- presentable
- pretest
- prime
- procreant
- real-time