sufficientadjective
uk/səˈfɪʃ.ənt/us/səˈfɪʃ.ənt/B2 enough for a particular purpose:
This recipe should be sufficient for five people.
It was thought that he'd committed the crime but there wasn't sufficient evidence to convict him.
Opposite
insufficient
have had sufficient UK formal
to have eaten enough:
"Would you like some more stew?" "No thanks, I've had sufficient."
More examples
- Will a loan of $500 be sufficient?
- Did you have sufficient time to do the work?
- I hope we have sufficient people to do the job.
- If I buy two pounds of fish that should be sufficient for four people.
- I'm not convinced we have sufficient funds to do this project.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Enough
- adequate
- cover
- enough
- fill
- go
- go round
- good
- hold
- hold out
- respectable
- respectably
- say
- say when idiom
- suffice
- suffice (it) to say idiom
- sufficiency
- that
- that will do idiom
- the
sufficiently
adverb uk/səˈfɪʃ.ənt.li/us/səˈfɪʃ.ənt.li/
Examples
- I was sufficiently close to hear what they were saying.
- By this time she was sufficiently recovered to be back at work.
- I am not confident that the measures in place are sufficiently rigorous.
- It is thought that the feed was not exposed to sufficiently high temperatures to rid it of infection.
- I'm not sufficiently versed in computers to understand what you're saying.
C1
McGeechan has not recovered sufficiently to play in the semifinal tomorrow.
The case was sufficiently serious to warrant investigation by the police.