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Word Meanings - SUFFICIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; enough; ample; competent; as, provision sufficient for the family; an army sufficient to defend the country. My grace is sufficient for thee. 2 Cor. xii. 9. 2. Possessing adequate talents

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1. Equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; enough; ample; competent; as, provision sufficient for the family; an army sufficient to defend the country. My grace is sufficient for thee. 2 Cor. xii. 9. 2. Possessing adequate talents or accomplishments; of competent power or ability; qualified; fit. Who is sufficient for these things 2 Cor. ii. 16. 3. Capable of meeting obligations; responsible. The man is, notwithstanding, sufficient . . . I think I may take his bond. Shak. 4. Self-sufficient; self-satisfied; content. Thou art the most sufficient , Not to believe a thing. Beau. & Fl. Syn. -- Enough; adequate; competent; full; satisfactory; ample.

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  • FORMALITY
    The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
  • REGULARITY
    The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
  • AFFECTATIONIST
    One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
  • PLENTIFUL
    1. Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water. 2. Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful. If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year. Bacon. 3. Lavish; profuse; prodigal.
  • EXACTOR
    One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
  • CORRECTLY
    In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
  • STIFFENER
    One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
  • EXACTING
    Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
  • CORRUPTIONIST
    One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
  • CORRUPTIBLE
    1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
  • LIBERALIZE
    To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
  • BOUNTIFUL
    1. Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors. God, the bountiful Author of our being. Locke. 2. Plentiful; abundant; as, a bountiful supply of food. Syn. -- Liberal; munificent; generous; bounteous. -- Boun"ti*ful*ly, adv.
  • EQUALIZER
    One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
  • EXACTLY
    In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft.
  • AFFECTION
    Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
  • SATISFACTORY
    1. Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation. 2. Making amends, indemnification,
  • AMPLENESS
    The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness.
  • DIFFUSIVENESS
    The quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. Especially of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity. The fault that I find with a modern legend, it its diffusiveness. Addison.
  • AFFECTIBILITY
    The quality or state of being affectible.
  • STIFFENING
    1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.
  • UNCAPABLE
    Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke.
  • UNEXAMPLED
    Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.
  • REFORMALIZE
    To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
  • INSUFFICIENTLY
    In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
  • INCAPABLE
    Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
  • INEXACTLY
    In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
  • IRREGULARITY
    The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
  • OVERAFFECT
    To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
  • MISAFFECT
    To dislike.
  • INEXACT
    Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
  • TRANSPARENT
    transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
  • UNEQUALABLE
    Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.
  • ILLIBERALISM
    Illiberality.

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