sufficiently

comparative more sufficiently · superlative most sufficiently

1. mannerIn a sufficient manner; enough.

   Once we had eaten and drunk sufficiently, we went to bed.

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   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.

   1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

   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.

   1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 112

2. degreeTo a sufficient extent.

   We wanted to build a tepee, but we couldn't find sufficiently long sticks.

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   There are those who value a seat sufficiently highly that they prefer to make their daily journeys by the Western Region Vine Street line.

   1952 March, R. K. Kirkland, “The Railways of Uxbridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 150

   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.

   1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 159

   Alternatively, one could hope that Californication works: that large numbers of people of immensely diverse racial, ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds really can mix and blend while yet retaining a sufficiently common civic culture for America to survive as a free, democratic and self-confident nation.

   2003 August 14, Timothy Garton Ash, “God's crucible”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2021