SUFFICIENT


Meaning of SUFFICIENT in English

I. adjective

1.

being what is requisite or needed especially without superfluity

there is sufficient bread left for breakfast

Synonyms: adequate, comfortable, competent, decent, enough, satisfactory, sufficing; compare decent 4

Related Word: ample, plenteous, plentiful, plenty; commensurable, commensurate, due, proportionate; acceptable, agreeable, pleasing

Contrasted words: inadequate, unsufficing; deficient; failing, lacking, missing, wanting

Antonyms: insufficient

2.

Synonyms: decent 4, acceptable, adequate, all right, common, satisfactory, tolerable, unexceptionable, unexceptional, unobjectionable

Idioms: fair to middling

II. noun

Synonyms: enough , adequacy, competence, sufficiency

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