sufficient

CEFRB1

/səˈfɪʃənt/

adjective · determiner

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adjective
Enough for a particular purpose or need.
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adjective
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A quantity (of something) that is as large as is needed.

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Of a type or kind that suffices, that satisfies requirements or needs.
Possessing adequate talents or accomplishments; of competent power or ability; qualified; fit.

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They felt sufficient to maintain their present prosperity and independence.
1842, Nathanael Emmons, Jacob Ide, Social and civil duties, page 456
I have never yet felt adequate. I have never yet felt sufficient.
1983, John MacArthur, Spiritual Gifts, →ISBN, page 98
...to take the best ways we can, to make it known to the Duke of York; for, till Sir J. Minnes be removed, and a sufficient man brought into W. Pen's place, when he is gone, it is impossible for this Office ever to support itself.
1668 December 23, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys
I shall in this place only mention that qualification by wealth; the rather, being applyed to the deputies of towns and citties, where they use to say of a rich man, he is a very sufficient man : and the other sufficiencies and qualifications are mentioned on other occasions.
1766, Bulstrode Whitlocke, Charles Morton, Whitelockes Notes Uppon The Kings Writt For Choosing Members Of Parlement
The second in the Hong, Mowgua, has been a man of large property, but he is of more questionable property now ; I consider him still to be a very sufficient merchant.
1830, Great Britain Parliament House of Commons, Select Committee on the East India Company, Reports from the Select Committee[s] of the House of Commons Appointed to Enquire into the Present State of the Affairs of the East-India Company

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From Old French sufisanz, soficient, from Latin sufficiēns, present participle of sufficiō.