sufficientlyadv.n.

/səˈfɪʃəntli/

Etymology: < sufficient adj. + -ly suffix².

In a sufficient manner.

a. In a manner or to an extent calculated to satisfy the circumstances of the case or adequate to a certain purpose or object; enough for the purpose (expressed or implied).Formerly also in †sufficiently enough.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb]

enougheOE

well enoughOE

enowc1300

fairc1300

suffisantlya1340

enoughly1340

meeta1350

sufficientlyc1380

duly1393

competentlyc1440

sufficient1509

'nougha1618

adequately1639

nuff1778

sufficingly1821

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being satisfactory > [adverb]

wellOE

sufficientlyc1380

acceptably1479

competently1541

somewhat like1593

tant bien que mal1765

bearably1784

unobjectionably1797

fairly1836

decently1846

OK1886

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > (in) sufficient amount or degree [phrase]

at or to sufficiencec1430

sufficiently enough1556

q.s.a1662

quantum sufficit1699

quantum suff.1796

quant. suff.1821

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 386 Þat þe clergy was sufficyently purveyed for lyfelode.

c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) i. lxx. 41 Thouh swiche ten j hadde had to a dyner, j hadde not be fed sufficientliche.

1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 322 Thar wes nane that euer him kend Wald do sa mekill for him, that he Mycht sufficiantly fundyn be.

1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 19 Many Tanners put their hydes and ledder to sale before they be sufficiantly dryed.

1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist f. 108^v I suppose it be sufficiently ynough declared, that the B. of Rome deserueth this thrid title.

1592 Arden of Feversham v. iii. 15 His pursse and girdle found at thy beds head Witnes sufficiently thou didst the deede.

1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 33 Never..to swallow doune our meale, before it be sufficiently chewed.

a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 123 Upon a hill sufficiently enough steep, to which there was no accesse.

c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 216 That..never sufficiently to be admired, Toro of Amphion, and Dirces.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 404 Seem I to thee sufficiently possest Of happiness, or not?

1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. ix. 61 The subject too has been already discussed, and is sufficiently understood.

1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. II. vii. 283 The strength of their principles was sufficiently shown by their almost unanimous refusal of the abjuration oath.

1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Valerie's Fate i You are not sufficiently clad. I must insist on your taking my shawl again.

b. Const. †to, for (a purpose, etc.).

ΚΠ

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxx Thou aunswerest Luther..not sufficientlye to the matter [L. non satis ad rem].

1764 Museum Rusticum IV. 27 A soil..made sufficiently moist for vegetation.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. i. viii. 69 A volley, for which I was not sufficiently case-hardened.

1884 F. Temple Relations Relig. & Sci. (1885) i. 20 The rule is sufficiently general for all practical purposes.

c. Const. to with infinitive.

ΚΠ

1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. iii. 162 Nor were they sufficiently skilful in the art of war to reduce the place by force.

1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. iii. §8. 222 Air is..admitted to the distillate, sufficiently slowly to prevent it from taking fire.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxii. 153 The slope..was just sufficiently steep to keep the attention aroused.

1895 Law Times Rep. 73 702/2 The thing saved was held to be sufficiently like a ship to be not unfairly treated as a ship.

2. Adequately, satisfactorily; hence, fully, completely, quite; now chiefly with adjectives, as…as well could be.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adverb]

fullyeOE

allesOE

fullOE

rightc1175

everydealc1300

wholec1300

whollya1325

finelyc1330

fairly1340

completec1374

gainlya1375

clearly1377

freelya1393

plaina1393

entire?a1400

entirelyc1400

oddlyc1400

sufficientlyc1440

expressc1475

totally1509

completely1526

finec1530

exactly?1531

sincerely1576

start1599

fillingly1611

circularly1618

solid1651

out-over1745

rotundly1775

roundedly?1802

whole hog1840

clear-away1883

whole cloth1917

righteous1948

c1440 Alphabet of Tales 336 A clerk þat was wele and sufficientlie letterd.

1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 10 My wyt and my penne so to enlumyne..that suffycyently Thy legende begunne, I may termyne.

c1480 (a1400) St. Thomas Apostle 402 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 140 Þe tothir ensampil tane ma be sufficiandly be þe wyne-tre.

?1510 T. More tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. a.i^v If no man shuld do hit but he that might sufficiently do hit: no man shuld do hit.

1577 M. Hanmer tr. Evagrius Scholasticus ii. xii, in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 436 There was suche a marueylous great earthquake..that it can not sufficiently be described.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. ii. 15 Businesses, (which none (without thee) can sufficiently manage).

1621 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India (1906) 239 Itt is suffitiently probable a greater prejudice will enforce them to petition for his licence.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 165 We entertained them with certain Gobelets of Aquavitae and sent them sufficiently drunk to the Ship.

1674 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 317 All this has sophytiently vexed me.

1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia I. iv. 21 The old man went away sufficiently discontented.

1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 74 The style of Bede, if not elegant Latin, is yet correct, sufficiently classical.

1884 F. M. Crawford Rom. Singer (ed. 2) I. 3 He is still sufficiently ugly.

1905 R. Bagot Passport xxxiv. 396 The last hour or so has been sufficiently trying to the nerves.

†3. Of workmanship: Substantially. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being satisfactory > [adverb] > workmanship

sufficiently1393

1393 Reg. de Aberbrothoc (Bannatyne Club) II. 42 William Plumer sal theke the mekil quer..wyth lede and guttir yt al abowt sufficiandly with lede.

1460 in Rec. City of Norwich (1910) II. 94 So þ^t þe cloth which shall be sufficiantely made shall be tokened.

1477 Rolls of Parl. VI. 180/2 If any of the seid persone or persones..make not the seid pavement sufficienly.

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. ccclx^v No man wene this werke be sufficiently maked, for goddes werke passeth mans.

1537 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis (1845) I. 414 Sir Wilȝame..sall ouphald..þe foirsaid tenment..in all necessar thingis sufficientlie.

1639 in Thanes of Cawdor (Spalding Club) 284 Withe armes names and siferis..weill and sufficientlie wrocht.

1699 in Thanes of Cawdor (Spalding Club) 394 To finish the said work weel suffeciently neetly and compleetly.

4. Contemptuously. pseudo-dialect (Cf. sufficiency n. 6.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [adverb] > contemptuously

lightlyOE

scornlichec1300

despitouslyc1320

hokerfullyc1330

scornfullyc1380

despisantly1389

deignouslyc1440

scorninglyc1440

contemningly1471

a-scornc1485

disdaininglyc1485

despiteouslya1500

disdainouslya1513

disdainishly?1529

a-swash1530

contemptuously1530

disdainfullya1533

despitefully1535

disdainedly1535

contemptibly1577

snuffingly1577

floutingly1580

despisingly1591

slightly1601

indignantly1602

contemptedly1605

overly1610

slightfully1627

despicably1637

slightingly1654

contemnibly1702

sneeringly1711

slightily1740

snottily1864

sniffingly1873

sufficiently1893

sniffily1902

pooh-poohingly1903

dismissively1922

1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona viii. 91 I think I was used extremely suffeeciently myself to be set up to fecht with an auld wife.

†5. As n. (after uses of late Latin sufficienter). Sufficient means; sufficient; enough. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [noun]

fillc893

enoughOE

no lack (of)c1305

sufficiencec1380

suffisancec1381

suffisance1390

sufficienta1450

sufficienty1450

sufficient1470

store1471

sufficientlyc1485

sufficiency1531

satiety1569

strength1593

competence1600

sufficiency1608

competency1616

quantum sufficit1693

quantum suff.1763

adequacy1790

quant. suff.1799

critical mass1947

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 116 Gif he had nede, and had nocht sufficiandly to mak were with.

?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth xliv. f. 61^v From the heuen dyscended..plenty of rayne water that it was more than sufficyent to all the army.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xix. 106 b There is not brought sufficiently vnto them for the maintenance of their ydle life.

1586 T. Bright Treat. Melancholie xxiii. 132 Sufficiently hath bene sayd.

1610 Bible (Douay) II. Nahum ii. 12 The lion hath caught sufficiently [L. cepit sufficienter] for his welpes.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sufficiently
释义	sufficientlyadv.n. /səˈfɪʃəntli/ Etymology: < sufficient adj. + -ly suffix². In a sufficient manner. 1. a. In a manner or to an extent calculated to satisfy the circumstances of the case or adequate to a certain purpose or object; enough for the purpose (expressed or implied).Formerly also in †sufficiently enough. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] enougheOE well enoughOE enowc1300 fairc1300 suffisantlya1340 enoughly1340 meeta1350 sufficientlyc1380 duly1393 competentlyc1440 sufficient1509 'nougha1618 adequately1639 nuff1778 sufficingly1821 the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being satisfactory > [adverb] wellOE sufficientlyc1380 acceptably1479 competently1541 somewhat like1593 tant bien que mal1765 bearably1784 unobjectionably1797 fairly1836 decently1846 OK1886 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > (in) sufficient amount or degree [phrase] at or to sufficiencec1430 sufficiently enough1556 q.s.a1662 quantum sufficit1699 quantum suff.1796 quant. suff.1821 c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 386 Þat þe clergy was sufficyently purveyed for lyfelode. c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) i. lxx. 41 Thouh swiche ten j hadde had to a dyner, j hadde not be fed sufficientliche. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 322 Thar wes nane that euer him kend Wald do sa mekill for him, that he Mycht sufficiantly fundyn be. 1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 19 Many Tanners put their hydes and ledder to sale before they be sufficiantly dryed. 1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist f. 108^v I suppose it be sufficiently ynough declared, that the B. of Rome deserueth this thrid title. 1592 Arden of Feversham v. iii. 15 His pursse and girdle found at thy beds head Witnes sufficiently thou didst the deede. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 33 Never..to swallow doune our meale, before it be sufficiently chewed. a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 123 Upon a hill sufficiently enough steep, to which there was no accesse. c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 216 That..never sufficiently to be admired, Toro of Amphion, and Dirces. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 404 Seem I to thee sufficiently possest Of happiness, or not? View more context for this quotation 1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. ix. 61 The subject too has been already discussed, and is sufficiently understood. 1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. II. vii. 283 The strength of their principles was sufficiently shown by their almost unanimous refusal of the abjuration oath. 1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Valerie's Fate i You are not sufficiently clad. I must insist on your taking my shawl again. b. Const. †to, for (a purpose, etc.). ΚΠ 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxx Thou aunswerest Luther..not sufficientlye to the matter [L. non satis ad rem]. 1764 Museum Rusticum IV. 27 A soil..made sufficiently moist for vegetation. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. i. viii. 69 A volley, for which I was not sufficiently case-hardened. 1884 F. Temple Relations Relig. & Sci. (1885) i. 20 The rule is sufficiently general for all practical purposes. c. Const. to with infinitive. ΚΠ 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. iii. 162 Nor were they sufficiently skilful in the art of war to reduce the place by force. 1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. iii. §8. 222 Air is..admitted to the distillate, sufficiently slowly to prevent it from taking fire. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxii. 153 The slope..was just sufficiently steep to keep the attention aroused. 1895 Law Times Rep. 73 702/2 The thing saved was held to be sufficiently like a ship to be not unfairly treated as a ship. 2. Adequately, satisfactorily; hence, fully, completely, quite; now chiefly with adjectives, as…as well could be. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adverb] fullyeOE allesOE fullOE rightc1175 everydealc1300 wholec1300 whollya1325 finelyc1330 fairly1340 completec1374 gainlya1375 clearly1377 freelya1393 plaina1393 entire?a1400 entirelyc1400 oddlyc1400 sufficientlyc1440 expressc1475 totally1509 completely1526 finec1530 exactly?1531 sincerely1576 start1599 fillingly1611 circularly1618 solid1651 out-over1745 rotundly1775 roundedly?1802 whole hog1840 clear-away1883 whole cloth1917 righteous1948 c1440 Alphabet of Tales 336 A clerk þat was wele and sufficientlie letterd. 1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 10 My wyt and my penne so to enlumyne..that suffycyently Thy legende begunne, I may termyne. c1480 (a1400) St. Thomas Apostle 402 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 140 Þe tothir ensampil tane ma be sufficiandly be þe wyne-tre. ?1510 T. More tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. a.i^v If no man shuld do hit but he that might sufficiently do hit: no man shuld do hit. 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Evagrius Scholasticus ii. xii, in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 436 There was suche a marueylous great earthquake..that it can not sufficiently be described. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. ii. 15 Businesses, (which none (without thee) can sufficiently manage). View more context for this quotation 1621 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India (1906) 239 Itt is suffitiently probable a greater prejudice will enforce them to petition for his licence. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 165 We entertained them with certain Gobelets of Aquavitae and sent them sufficiently drunk to the Ship. 1674 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 317 All this has sophytiently vexed me. 1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia I. iv. 21 The old man went away sufficiently discontented. 1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 74 The style of Bede, if not elegant Latin, is yet correct, sufficiently classical. 1884 F. M. Crawford Rom. Singer (ed. 2) I. 3 He is still sufficiently ugly. 1905 R. Bagot Passport xxxiv. 396 The last hour or so has been sufficiently trying to the nerves. †3. Of workmanship: Substantially. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being satisfactory > [adverb] > workmanship sufficiently1393 1393 Reg. de Aberbrothoc (Bannatyne Club) II. 42 William Plumer sal theke the mekil quer..wyth lede and guttir yt al abowt sufficiandly with lede. 1460 in Rec. City of Norwich (1910) II. 94 So þ^t þe cloth which shall be sufficiantely made shall be tokened. 1477 Rolls of Parl. VI. 180/2 If any of the seid persone or persones..make not the seid pavement sufficienly. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. ccclx^v No man wene this werke be sufficiently maked, for goddes werke passeth mans. 1537 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis (1845) I. 414 Sir Wilȝame..sall ouphald..þe foirsaid tenment..in all necessar thingis sufficientlie. 1639 in Thanes of Cawdor (Spalding Club) 284 Withe armes names and siferis..weill and sufficientlie wrocht. 1699 in Thanes of Cawdor (Spalding Club) 394 To finish the said work weel suffeciently neetly and compleetly. 4. Contemptuously. pseudo-dialect (Cf. sufficiency n. 6.) ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [adverb] > contemptuously lightlyOE scornlichec1300 despitouslyc1320 hokerfullyc1330 scornfullyc1380 despisantly1389 deignouslyc1440 scorninglyc1440 contemningly1471 a-scornc1485 disdaininglyc1485 despiteouslya1500 disdainouslya1513 disdainishly?1529 a-swash1530 contemptuously1530 disdainfullya1533 despitefully1535 disdainedly1535 contemptibly1577 snuffingly1577 floutingly1580 despisingly1591 slightly1601 indignantly1602 contemptedly1605 overly1610 slightfully1627 despicably1637 slightingly1654 contemnibly1702 sneeringly1711 slightily1740 snottily1864 sniffingly1873 sufficiently1893 sniffily1902 pooh-poohingly1903 dismissively1922 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona viii. 91 I think I was used extremely suffeeciently myself to be set up to fecht with an auld wife. †5. As n. (after uses of late Latin sufficienter). Sufficient means; sufficient; enough. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] fillc893 enoughOE no lack (of)c1305 sufficiencec1380 suffisancec1381 suffisance1390 sufficienta1450 sufficienty1450 sufficient1470 store1471 sufficientlyc1485 sufficiency1531 satiety1569 strength1593 competence1600 sufficiency1608 competency1616 quantum sufficit1693 quantum suff.1763 adequacy1790 quant. suff.1799 critical mass1947 c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 116 Gif he had nede, and had nocht sufficiandly to mak were with. ?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth xliv. f. 61^v From the heuen dyscended..plenty of rayne water that it was more than sufficyent to all the army. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xix. 106 b There is not brought sufficiently vnto them for the maintenance of their ydle life. 1586 T. Bright Treat. Melancholie xxiii. 132 Sufficiently hath bene sayd. 1610 Bible (Douay) II. 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