suffices

Verb

suffice (third-person singular simple present suffices, present participle sufficing, simple past and past participle sufficed)

1. (intransitive) To be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be adequate; to be good enough.
   • For this plum cake, two eggs should suffice.

   Synonyms:

   work

2. (transitive) To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.
   • A joint of lamb sufficed even his enormous appetite.
3. (archaic) To furnish; to supply adequately.
   • During the festival, the temple suffices food to the beggars.

Noun

suffix (plural suffixes)

1. A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
   • The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable".

   Synonyms:

   affix

   Antonyms:

   prefix

2. A subscript.
3. A final segment of a string of characters.
   • The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".

See all 6 meanings of suffix