Definition of Sufficient

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Sufficient

Equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; enough; ample; competent; as, provision sufficient for the family; an army sufficient to defend the country.

Possessing adequate talents or accomplishments; of competent power or ability; qualified; fit.

Capable of meeting obligations; responsible.

Self-sufficient; self-satisfied; content.

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Sufficient Quotations

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Thomas Jefferson

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Kahlil Gibran

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Alexander the Great

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
Voltaire

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
Milton Friedman

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Blaise Pascal

Sufficient Translations

sufficient in Afrikaans is genoeg
sufficient in Dutch is genoeg, voldoende
sufficient in French is suffisant, passable
sufficient in Norwegian is nok
sufficient in Portuguese is suficiente
sufficient in Spanish is suficiente

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