sufficiently
English
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From sufficient + -ly.
Pronunciation
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[edit]sufficiently (comparative more sufficiently, superlative most sufficiently)
- (manner) In a sufficient manner; enough.
- Once we had eaten and drunk sufficiently, we went to bed.
- 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:
- 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.
- 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 112:
- I prefer to think that birds have a sufficiently developed sense of humour to enjoy the spectacle of a human being hunched beneath a bush kissing the back of their hand.
- (degree) To a sufficient extent.
- We wanted to build a tepee, but we couldn't find sufficiently long sticks.
- 1952 March, R. K. Kirkland, “The Railways of Uxbridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:
- There are those who value a seat sufficiently highly that they prefer to make their daily journeys by the Western Region Vine Street line.
- 1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 159:
- Attempts by Waterloo signalmen to clear the points by power operation eventually exhausted point motor batteries, which are fed by trickle chargers, and a blown fuse accentuated the problem; thus, even when the points had been cleared of ice, no power was available to operate them until the batteries were sufficiently recharged.
Derived terms
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[edit]in a sufficient manner
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to a sufficient extent
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