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SUFFICIENTLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a sufficient degree

Example:

she was sufficiently fluent in Mandarin

Classified under:

Adverbs

Antonym:

insufficiently (to an insufficient degree)

Pertainym:

sufficient (of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant)

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 Context examples: 

Though most of the facts were familiar to me, I had not sufficiently appreciated their relative importance, nor their connection to each other.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Laboratory procedure in which single stranded nucleic acids are allowed to interact so that complexes, or hybrids, are formed by molecules with sufficiently similar, complementary sequences.

(Nucleic Acid Hybridization, NCI Thesaurus)

At the end of that time the lynx was devoured, while the she-wolf's wounds had healed sufficiently to permit her to take the meat-trail again.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A neoplastic disease of a mouse with clinical features sufficiently similar to those of a human cancer to serve as a test system.

(Mouse Models of Human Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)

When the unexpected does happen, however, and when it is of sufficiently grave import, the unfit perish.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

If confirmed, this potential reservoir of frozen water on the Moon may be sufficiently massive to sustain long-term lunar exploration.

(The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits, NASA)

That’s why, overall, fetuses do not grow sufficiently during pregnancy when the mother is older compared to when she is young, said Dr Napso.

(Placenta changes could mean male offspring of older mums more likely to develop heart problems in later life, University of Cambridge)

They met for the sake of eating, drinking, and laughing together, playing at cards, or consequences, or any other game that was sufficiently noisy.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

However, earlier studies suggest that at least 6% of patients don’t fast sufficiently, potentially raising blood glucose and leading to an incorrect diagnosis and additional testing.

(Researchers identify method to verify if children fasted before medical testing, National Institutes of Health)

But I was bewildered, perplexed, and unable to arrange my ideas sufficiently to understand the full extent of his proposition.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)