Sufficiently
[sə'fɪʃəntlɪ]
Definition
(adv.) to a sufficient degree; 'she was sufficiently fluent in Mandarin'.
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Definition
(adv.) To a sufficient degree; to a degree that answers the purpose, or gives content; enough; as, we are sufficiently supplied with food; a man sufficiently qualified for the discharge of his official duties.
Editor: Pratt
Examples
- I am sufficiently well off to keep a hundred and fifty ton steam yacht, which is at present lying at Southampton, ready to start when I wish. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Sissy's face sufficiently showed that her appeal to him was not finished. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I alluded to the coldness of her letters; but the few minutes we had spent together sufficiently explained the origin of this. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I am not sufficiently acquainted with such subjects to know whether it is at all remarkable that I almost always dreamed of that period of my life. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The buff finish looks all right, but it does not harden the silver sufficiently and in consequence the latter does not wear well. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Edison's assertions were treated with scepticism by the scientific world, which was not then ready for the discovery and not sufficiently furnished with corroborative data. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Loose the bandage sufficiently to restore the pulse. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- A very few words will sufficiently explain all that I have to say concerning the other three branches of the corn trade. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- All the conditions of the lease might be sufficiently known from such a record. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He wrote to Leverrier in reference to the errors of the radius vector and received a satisfactory and sufficiently compliant reply. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In a short time Oliver was sufficiently recovered to undergo the fatigue of this expedition. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It was evening, indeed, before the kind-hearted doctor brought them the intelligence, that he was at length sufficiently restored to be spoken to. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- My familiarity with Marian's journal sufficiently assured me that the elderly lady was Madame Fosco. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- All this was sufficiently evident with respect to man. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Sch?ffer replied that he was not sufficiently learned to answer the question. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- My father is not sufficiently alarmed, I fear; and, therefore, if there is any serious apprehension, it must be broken to him gently. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- In the fall of 1892 I moved to Kokomo, and the following summer I had my plans sufficiently matured to begin the actual construction of a machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Elizabeth took up some needlework, and was sufficiently amused in attending to what passed between Darcy and his companion. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It seems that the musket had been run over by a handcar, which slightly bent the long barrel, but not sufficiently for an amateur like Fox to notice. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- When the princes were themselves sufficiently clever they too were Machiavellian. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But this accounts not sufficiently for the satisfaction, which attends riches. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It seemed to me, however, that I was sufficiently calm: at least I felt no longer terrified. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The absurdity of the two last suppositions proves sufficiently the veracity of the firSt. Nor is there any fourth opinion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- But neither his wife nor his daughter was sufficiently interested to ask an explanation. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- She was sufficiently familiar with Mrs. Dorset's habits to know that she could always be found at home after five. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- This connexion or constant conjunction sufficiently proves the one part to be the cause of the other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- For this reason the present phaenomenon will be sufficiently accounted for, in explaining that passion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I think that we are now sufficiently imposing to strike terror into a guilty breast. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- When one coating became sufficiently hard another was added, and smoked in turn, and so successive coatings were applied until a sufficient thickness was obtained. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Editor: Pratt