| 单词 | sufficient |
| 释义 | sufficient (once / 50 pages) adj If you have a sufficient amount of something, it's enough — not too much, not too little, just right. Goldilocks would be pleased. Sufficient comes from a Latin verb meaning "to meet the need." If something is sufficient it has met, or satisfied, a need. Enough is often used as a synonym for sufficient, and when something is not sufficient, it is too little to take care of what's needed. Sufficient can, however, also suggest just enough and not an abundance, as in "the money was sufficient for groceries, but we needed more to fill the gas tank." WORD FAMILYsufficient: insufficient, self-sufficient, sufficienter, sufficientest, sufficiently+/insufficiency: insufficiencies/insufficient: insufficiency, insufficienter, insufficiently/self-sufficient: self-sufficiency/suffice: sufficed, suffices, sufficiency, sufficient, sufficing/sufficiency: sufficiencies/sufficing: self-sufficing USAGE EXAMPLESThe Fourth Ohio District Court of Appeals rejected those arguments in a unanimous ruling last week, saying there was sufficient evidence to support the convictions. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Mr. Hogan’s gambit that talking about Israel to Jewish audiences is sufficient to win over my community is misguided. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) Clinton was unable to compensate for these demographic losses with sufficient gains among Hispanic, white and college-educated voters. The Guardian(Dec 26, 2016) adj of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant sufficient food Syn|Ant ample more than enough in size or scope or capacity adequate, decent, enoughsufficient for the purpose comfortablesufficient to provide comfort deficient, insufficient of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingydeficient in amount or quality or extent depleted, lowno longer sufficient inadequate, poor, shortnot sufficient to meet a need lean, skimpycontaining little excess light, scant, shortless than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so shyshort |
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