SUFFICIENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sufficient mean? 

• SUFFICIENT (adjective)
  The adjective SUFFICIENT has 1 sense:

1. of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant

  Familiarity information: SUFFICIENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUFFICIENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant

Context example:

sufficient food

Similar:

adequate; enough (sufficient for the purpose)

comfortable (sufficient to provide comfort)

Also:

ample (more than enough in size or scope or capacity)

Attribute:

quantity (an adequate or large amount)

Antonym:

insufficient (of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement)

Derivation:

suffice (be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity)

sufficiency (the quality of being sufficient for the end in view)

sufficiency (an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose)

 Context examples 

I am an advocate for early marriages, where there are means in proportion, and would have every young man, with a sufficient income, settle as soon after four-and-twenty as he can.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Distinguished from a promoter, that is alone sufficient to cause expression of the gene when bound.

(Enhancer, NCI Thesaurus)

The existence of anything is sufficient vindication of its fitness to exist—to exist, mark you, as the average person unconsciously believes, not merely in present conditions, but in all conditions.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The C-terminal 'focal adhesion targeting' (FAT) region is necessary and sufficient for localizing FAK to focal adhesions.

(FAK Family Tyrosine Kinase, NCI Thesaurus)

But, indeed, I have little doubt that we can build up a sufficient case without it.

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

Not as much diagnostic information as is typical for an examination of this type, but likely sufficient to answer the primary clinical question.

(Limited Quality, NCI Thesaurus)

Meeting inclusion criteria is not a sufficient condition for entry or recruitment of a subject into the study.

(Inclusion Criteria, NCI Thesaurus)

To satisfy my curious reader, it may be sufficient to describe Lorbrulgrud.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Phases or points in the cell cycle at which a cell is prevented from progressing into the next phase of the cycle unless certain necessary and sufficient cellular conditions exist.

(Cell Cycle Checkpoint, NCI Thesaurus)

Dr. Sontheimer and his colleagues were surprised that very small groups of tumor cells, even individual cells, were sufficient to weaken the BBB early in the disease process.

(Brain tumor invasion along blood vessels may lead to new cancer treatments, NIH)