| 单词 | sufficiency |
| 释义 | sufficiency (once / 3172 pages) n A sufficiency is an adequate amount of something. Before a winter storm, you should probably make sure you have a sufficiency of food stored in your house. The noun sufficiency means the quality of being enough, adequate, or sufficient. Due to financial constraints, your local school district may be willing to settle for educational sufficiency, but hopefully you will hold the district to a higher standard than offering merely an adequate education to students. The opposite of sufficiency is insufficiency, meaning an inadequate amount. Of the two, you will likely hear insufficiency more often than sufficiency in conversation. WORD FAMILYsufficiency: sufficiencies+/insufficiency: insufficiencies/insufficient: insufficiency, insufficienter, insufficiently/self-sufficient: self-sufficiency/suffice: sufficed, suffices, sufficiency, sufficient, sufficing/sufficient: insufficient, self-sufficient, sufficienter, sufficientest, sufficiently/sufficing: self-sufficing USAGE EXAMPLESAs if that wasn’t a sufficiency of unpredictability, there will be critical elections in Germany and France, the EU’s two most significant actors. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) Friday’s announcement says the awards were part of the $32.5 million awarded around the nation through HUD’s Resident Opportunities and Self Sufficiency Service Coordinators Program. Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) The incoming administration will focus on the facts and the sufficiency of the process already in place. Washington Times(Dec 12, 2016) 1n the quality of being sufficient for the end in view he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper adequacy deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency lack of an adequate quantity or number ampleness the property of being more than sufficient; comfortable sufficiency quality an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone 2n an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose there is more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country Syn|Hypo|Hyper enough fill a quantity sufficient to satisfy relative quantity a quantity relative to some purpose 3n sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations her father questioned the young suitor's sufficiency Hyper wealth, wealthiness the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money |
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