Suffice
[sə'faɪs]
Definition
(verb.) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity; 'A few words would answer'; 'This car suits my purpose well'; 'Will $100 do?'; 'A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school'; 'Nothing else will serve'.
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Definition
(v. i.) To be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.
(v. t.) To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.
(v. t.) To furnish; to supply adequately.
Editor: Roxanne
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Be enough, be sufficient.
v. a. Satisfy, content, be enough for.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Satisfy, content, be_enough,[See AFFLICTION]
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Definition
v.i. to be enough: to be equal to the end in view.—v.t. to satisfy.—n. Suffi′ciency state of being sufficient: competence: ability: capacity: conceit.—adj. Suffi′cient sufficing: enough: equal to any end or purpose: competent.—adv. Suffi′ciently.—n. Suf′fisance (Spens.) sufficiency.
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Examples
- Let it suffice h ere to state that Rutherford assumes that the greater mass of the atom consis ts o f negatively charged particles rotating about a positive nucle us. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Any room in this house might suffice. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Suffice it to say that when Edison went boldly out into new territory, after something entirely unknown, he was quite prepared for hard work and exploration. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In that case the steady pull on the balance will be one half the weight of the roller; or a force of 6 pounds will suffice to raise the 12-pound roller. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I urged my companions to prepare for the wreck of our little skiff, and to bind themselves to some oar or spar which might suffice to float them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- What her thoughts were I did not know, for as yet I had learned but little of the Martian tongue; enough only to suffice for my daily needs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Suffice it to say that Cr?sus made a defensive alliance both with the Lacedemonians and the Egyptians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But in the better grades of material the printing is well done, and the color designs are fairly fast, and a little care in the laundry suffices to eliminate any danger of fading. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The attachment of a very few suffices me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- For decorations already painted it suffices to apply it to the back and wooden frames. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The feeblest imaginable current suffices to deflect the needle in one direction, which throws back the little beam of light upon it to the graduated front of the scale. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We not only turn our view to it, when actuated by that appetite; but the reflecting on it suffices to excite the appetite. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This suffices to satisfy the imagination, and proves there is no repugnance in such a motion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- That is, when the roller weighs 12, a force of 3 suffices to raise it to the height _A_ along the incline; but the smaller force must be applied throughout the entire length of the incline. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Himself has hitherto sufficed to the toil, and the toil draws near its close: his glorious sun hastens to its setting. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The interruption was not unseasonable: sufficient for the day is always the evil; for this hour, its good sufficed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- A very brief exercise of Mr. Sike's art, sufficed to overcome the fastening of the lattice; and it soon stood wide open also. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- But few words sufficed to tell Laura and Marian how my desperate venture had ended, and what the next event in our lives was likely to be. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The very first interchange of slight observations sufficed to give each an idea of what the other was. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A few years ago it had sufficed her: she had taken her daily meed of pleasure without caring who provided it. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He was a quick and powerful reasoner; and a moment's reflection sufficed to remind him of the impotency of his rage. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The State is all-sufficing for the wants of man, and, like the idea of the Church in later ages, absorbs all other desires and affections. Plato. The Republic.
- The more purely mental it is, the more independent or self-sufficing is it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Again, experience always involved lack, need, desire; it was never self-sufficing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As I said before, I was sitting near the stove, let into the wall beneath the refectory and the carré, and thus sufficing to heat both apartments. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- A State, I said, arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. Plato. The Republic.
- What he did was accomplished with the ease and grace of all-sufficing strength; with the bountiful cheerfulness of high and unbroken energies. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I see her confessing that she was not so self-sufficing, so independent of sympathy, as people thought. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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