sufficiently

B2
US /səˈfɪʃəntli/
adv Freq #16655

Meanings

  1. 1
    adv

    to a sufficient degree

    I was sufficiently fluent in Mandarin to order food but not much more than that.

  2. 2
    adv

    In a sufficient manner; enough.

    Once we had eaten and drunk sufficiently, we padded off to sleep.

  3. 3
    adv

    To a sufficient extent.

    We wanted to build a tepee, but we couldn't find sufficiently long sticks.

Etymology

From sufficient + -ly.

Thesaurus

Word family
Derived forms self-sufficiently

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