Word Meanings - SUFFICIENTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To a sufficient degree; to a degree that answers the purpose, or gives content; enough; as, we are sufficiently supplied with food; a man sufficiently qualified for the discharge of his official duties.

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• SUPPLICATE
  supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To
• CONTENTMENT
  1. The state of being contented or satisfied; content. Contentment without external honor is humility. Grew. Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim. vi. 6. 2. The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice
• CONTENTLY
  In a contented manner.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• QUALIFICATION
  1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified. 2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success;
• SUPPLICANT
  Entreating; asking submissively. Shak. -- Sup"pli*cant*ly, adv.
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• QUALIFIED
  1. Fitted by accomplishments or endowments. 2. Modified; limited; as, a qualified statement. Qualified fee , a base fee, or an estate which has a qualification annexed to it, the fee ceasing with the qualification, as a grant to A and his heirs,
• OFFICIALISM
  The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.
• QUALIFIER
  , One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains.
• CONTENTIOUS
  Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. Contentious jurisdiction , jurisdiction over matters in controversy between parties, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed
• PURPOSE
  1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
• SUPPLIANCE
  That which supplies a want; assistance; a gratification; satisfaction. The perfume and suppliance of a minute. Shak.
• OFFICIALTY
  The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official. Ayliffe.
• SUPPLICATION
  A religious solemnity observed in consequence of some military success, and also, in times of distress and danger, to avert the anger of the gods. Syn. -- Entreaty; petition; solicitation; craving. (more info) 1. The act of supplicating; humble
• CONTENTED
  Content; easy in mind; satisfied; quiet; willing. -- Con*tent"ed*ly, adv. -- Con*tent"ed*ness, n.
• SUPPLIAL
  The act of supplying; a supply. "The supplial of a preposition." Fitzed. Hall.
• SUPPLICANCY
  Supplication.
• ENOUGH
  Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare! Luke xv. 17. (more info) (akin
• CONTENTION
  1. A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife. I would my arcontenion. Shak. 2. Strife in words; controversy; altercation quarrel; dispute; as, a bone of contention. Contentions and strivings about the law.
• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• INOFFICIALLY
  Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.
• DISCONTENT
  Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. Jer. Taylor. Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet. Bunyan.
• CROSS-PURPOSE
  A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons. (more info)
• DISPURPOSE
  To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. A. Brewer.