SUFFICIENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sufficiently mean? 

• SUFFICIENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb SUFFICIENTLY has 1 sense:

1. to a sufficient degree

  Familiarity information: SUFFICIENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUFFICIENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a sufficient degree

Context example:

she was sufficiently fluent in Mandarin

Antonym:

insufficiently (to an insufficient degree)

Pertainym:

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

 Context examples 

Bence Jones proteins are sufficiently small to be excreted by the kidney.

(Bence Jones protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Mr. Micawber, when he was sufficiently cool, proceeded with his letter.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He led her nearer the light and looked at her again—inquired particularly after her health, and then, correcting himself, observed that he need not inquire, for her appearance spoke sufficiently on that point.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Yet the scene in the dining-room of the Abbey Grange was sufficiently strange to arrest his attention and to recall his waning interest.

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

Emma was not sorry to have such an opportunity of survey; and walking a few yards forward, while they talked together, soon made her quick eye sufficiently acquainted with Mr. Robert Martin.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

For the first time, astronomers have observed Hygiea in sufficiently high resolution to study its surface and determine its shape and size.

(ESO Telescope Reveals What Could be the Smallest Dwarf Planet Yet in the Solar System, ESO)

Now I can manage to make myself understood sufficiently in your language to explain that you do not know that other girl's language.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The manner in which they spoke of the Meryton assembly was sufficiently characteristic.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

These results suggest that 8 weeks may not be enough time for many donors to sufficiently recover lost iron, particularly without taking iron supplements.

(Iron Supplements Hasten Recovery in Blood Donors, NIH)

She often told herself it was folly, before she could harden her nerves sufficiently to feel the continual discussion of the Crofts and their business no evil.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)