sufficiently
/səˈfɪʃəntli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a sufficient manner; enough.
adv
To a sufficient extent.
Example Sentences
- "Once we had eaten and drunk sufficiently, we went to bed."
- "Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes."
- "I prefer to think that birds have a sufficiently developed sense of humour to enjoy the spectacle of a human being hunched beneath a bush kissing the back of their hand."
- "We wanted to build a tepee, but we couldn't find sufficiently long sticks."
- "There are those who value a seat sufficiently highly that they prefer to make their daily journeys by the Western Region Vine Street line."
- "Attempts by Waterloo signalmen to clear the points by power operation eventually exhausted point motor batteries, which are fed by trickle chargers, and a blown fuse accentuated the problem; thus, even when the points had been cleared of ice, no power was available to operate them until the batteries were sufficiently recharged."
Etymology
Etymology tree English sufficient Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English sufficiently From sufficient + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more sufficiently (comparative)
most sufficiently (superlative)