Sufficient



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• adj.足够的
• ［英］ adj.足够的 ( enough to meet the needs)

Webster Collegiate

adjective

• Etymology: Middle English, from Latin sufficient-, sufficiens, from present participle of sufficere
• Date: 14th century
• 1.
  • a. enough to meet the needs of a situation or a proposed end <sufficient provisions for a month>
  • b. being a sufficient condition
• 2. archaic qualified, competent
• ? sufficiently adverb
• Synonyms:
  • sufficient, enough, adequate, competent mean being what is necessary or desirable. sufficient suggests a close meeting of a need <sufficient savings>. enough is less exact in suggestion than sufficient<do you have enough food?>. adequate may imply barely meeting a requirement<the service was adequate>. competent suggests measuring up to all requirements without question or being adequately adapted to an end<had no competent notion of what was going on>.

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