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sufficiently

Syllables: suf·fi·cient·ly/səˈfɪʃəntli/

sufficiently adverb: in a sufficient manner; enough.

Adverb

sufficiently (comparative more sufficiently, superlative most sufficiently)

  1. In a sufficient manner; enough.
    • Once we had eaten and drunk sufficiently, we went to bed.
    • Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
  2. (degree) To a sufficient extent.
    • We wanted to build a tepee, but we couldn't find sufficiently long sticks.
    • There are those who value a seat sufficiently highly that they prefer to make their daily journeys by the Western Region Vine Street line.1952 March, R. K. Kirkland, “The Railways of Uxbridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 150

sufficiently meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Kannada

sufficiently in Tamil

வினையுரிச்சொல், போதுமான அளவு, தேவையான முறை

sufficiently in Bengali

পর্যাপ্ত

sufficiently in Kannada

sufficiently, quite, rather
ಸಾಕಷ್ಟು sākaṣṭu

Examples of sufficiently in a sentence

  • The problem was sufficiently important that it had to be addressed.
  • Thus far, my intellect has been able to rise sufficiently to meet every academic challenge that I have encountered.
  • Ensure the patient is sufficiently under.

All 40 example sentences with sufficiently

Forms of sufficiently

comparativemore sufficiently
superlativemost sufficiently

Origin of sufficiently

From sufficient + -ly.

Words formed from sufficiently

Questions about sufficiently

What does sufficiently mean?
Sufficiently means in a sufficient manner; enough.
What is sufficiently in Tamil?
Sufficiently in Tamil is வினையுரிச்சொல், போதுமான அளவு, தேவையான முறை. See Sufficiently meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sufficiently?
Sufficiently is an adverb.
How do you pronounce sufficiently?
Sufficiently is pronounced /səˈfɪʃəntli/.

Words near sufficiently in the dictionary

  1. sufficient conditions
  2. sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
  3. sufficientarian
  4. sufficientarianism
  5. sufficientarians
  6. sufficiently
  7. sufficientness
  8. sufficing
  9. sufficingly
  10. sufficingness
  11. sufficive

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sufficiently (page history and authors); sufficiently (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sufficiently (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಸಾಕಷ್ಟು (Kannada) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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